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1!!Due to the nature of this work, [[Administrivia/SpoilersOff all spoilers will be unmarked]]. Please make sure you're up to date with the series [[https://www.youtube.com/c/MandelaCatalogue here]]. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned.
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3Character Hub of ''The WebVideo/MandelaCatalogue.''
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7!Humans
8!!Heathcliff family
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10[[folder:Mark Heathcliff]]
11!!Mark Heathcliff
12[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fimqdgywaaeowsl.jpg]]
13[[caption-width-right:200:'''''"YOU FUCKING BASTARD!"''''']]
14-->'''Portrayed by: Alex Kister'''
15->''"Who have I been praying to all this time?"''
16The very first protagonist of the series and a central posthumous character, a 17-year-old Christian boy who has been living in Mandela County since he was a child. In the many years that Mark has lived in the town, prior to his first appearance, he was witness and a survivor to multiple Alternate encounters, including at least 2 encounters with the Intruder himself.
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18* ApocalypticLog: All of his appearances are this one way or another, as it is implied that they are tapes being reviewed by agents of the Department of Temporal Phenomena in order to understand the Intruder's behavior.
19** In Volume 333 he leaves behind his camcorder and his reaffirmations book, both of them containing notes and recordings of his last days inside his own room.
20* AuthorAvatar: He's played by Alex Kister himself. Even his birthday is the same as Alex's (July 24).
21* TheCameo: Appears in Volume 2 when the Intruder shows ''everything that happened in Mandela County'' to Adam.
22* ChildrenAreInnocent: After his first encounter with the Intruder at the age of 4, he decides to make a school presentation based around it.
23* {{Determinator}}: Most people will commit suicide shortly after an encounter with an Alternate. Him? He lasted '''DAYS''' with one outside his door, and as revealed later, one inside his TV and another in his window, all three tormenting him.
24** {{Averted|Trope}} in the Remake, where he's implied to last less than a day.
25* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: Well, [[DownplayedTrope the differences are really minor]], but as stated above, he lasts less than a day with Cesar's Alternate outside his room before comitting suicide in the Remake.
26* DrivenToSuicide: After lasting days locked down inside his house with two Alternates, with no one coming to help, he reaches his {{Despair Event Horizon}} and decides to take his own life.
27* ForegoneConclusion: He's listed as "Victim 1" at the beginning of Volume 1, alluding that his fate is already sealed by the time you watch the footage.
28* GoneMadFromTheRevelation: It's heavily implied that he didn't succumb to M.A.D. until Cesar's Alternate revealed him the [[DevilInDisguise truth about God's fate]] during the 3 days he spent locked inside his own room.
29-->''"my eyes are wide open"''
30* HelplessObserverProtagonist: Much like everyone else in Mandela County, his only choice upon the Alternate invasion is to listen to the {{Public Service Announcement}}s provided by the government and to hope everything goes well.
31* HeterosexualLifePartners: {{Implied|Trope}} to be with Cesar. He trusts him enough to go to out in the middle of the night, knowing that the Alternates were around. This ultimately leads to [[ExploitedTrope his death]] in the hands of Cesar's Alternate.
32* MadnessMantra: Repeatedly wrote "Who have I been praying to all this time?" in his notebook before committing suicide.
33* MeaningfulName: A subtle one for sure, but it actually has some biblical ties; the name potentially comes from ''John'' Mark, the prophet who wrote the first books of the New Testament. Fittingly enough, Mark in the ''Mandela Catalogue'' series had documented the Intruder haunting his house as a child (so in a way, the first author).
34* MortonsFork: While locked inside his bedroom with Cesar's Alternate outside, he's forced to choose between starving, potentially getting killed by the Alternate, or killing himself.
35* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Left his house despite the PSA warning otherwise for the sake of helping his friend, only to be followed and driven to suicide by an alternate.
36* PosthumousCharacter: He's a central character in subsequent videos, but he dies during his first appearance in Volume 1.
37* SanitySlippage: He goes through one while locked down in his room for ''days'' straight, receiving psychological torture from Cesar's Alternate outside his door.
38** Exhibition reveals that he was already going through one at least one month prior to the events of Volume 1 due to the Intruder tormenting him, heavily relying on religious practices such as visiting churches.
39--->[[AC:"Footage implies that Heathcliff has been paranoid for a prolonged period.\
40Reasons are implied."]]
41** Lt. Thatcher's [[http://mandelapolice.com/secure/tDavis/HEATHCLIFF.php incident report]] regarding Mark's camcorder footage describes the whole ordeal in grisly detail, including some extra dialogue with the Alternate that wasn't in Vol. 1 proper.
42* TroubleFollowsYouHome: He's literally followed home by Cesar's Alternate.
43* WeHardlyKnewYe: Dies in the very first episode he appears in.
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45[[/folder]]
46[[folder:Sarah Heathcliff]]
47!!Sarah Heathcliff
48[[quoteright:183:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_2022_08_01_133443.png]]
49[[caption-width-right:183:''"I'm still waiting."'']]
50-->'''Portrayed by: Christina Kister (Young), Rachel Ridley (Current)'''
51->''"He had so much going for him. But you stripped that away with your filthy hands! You absolute... scumbags."''
52
53Mark's little sister. She's first seen in an old photo taken in front of a church in the early 80s, just to later be reintroduced in the series as the co-founder (alongside Adam) of the Bythorne Paranormal Society and the founder of it's predecessor, the Bythorne Paranormal Club. After a traumatic experience with an Alternate, she refuses to directly participate in any investigation, telling Adam to instead [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom find a new partner]] and assuming the role of the BPS' online manager.
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55* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: In the Vol. 1 Remake, Cesar's Alternate mentions her to Mark saying that "[his] little sister is so afraid." In the original Act 1, she wasn't seen or mentioned until ''Exhibition''.
56* AllThereInTheManual: Her name was at first only known through a post in the Community tab, and her only appearance in the series being the church photo in Exhibition. Subverted with the release of the 333 extension, where she appears in an email to Thatcher Davis in the video and a more up-to-date picture of her (seen above) is seen on the website.
57* AuthorAvatar: She was played by Alex Kister's actual sister. Subverted in the 333 extension, where she's played by a completely different actress.
58* TheCameo: Appears on the Intruder's TV along with Mark and Cesar in Volume 2.
59* ChekhovsGunman: She was first shown in an old picture from the 80s way back in Exhibition, just to come back in the 333 extension. As a member of the BPS, no less.
60* JerkassHasAPoint: While she doesn't know that the MCPD and Thatcher Davis in particular are frustrated at their [[FailureHero inability to protect their constituents]], she's correct in pointing out that the MCPD haven't helped the families of Alternate victims in the slightest and have refused to give them closure.
61* MeaningfulName: Named after the Biblical Sarah.
62* OnlySaneWoman: Of the Bythorne Paranormal Society. With her two collegues being Adam Murray, the man who couldn't give less of a care when faced against clear and waking danger such as Alternates, seems prone to lashing out on close ones, exhibits overall anti-social behavior, and could very well be a sleeper Alternate, and Jonah Marshall, who constantly cracks jokes about his own customers and is a self-admitted [[TheStoner stoner]], she looks like the most rational person in the room.
63* ThisIsUnforgivable: She's understandably mad at the MCPD, especially Thatcher Davis, after they left her brother to die in 1992.
64* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Although you can't really blame her after what Adam showed her, her unwillingness to continue with the investigations and telling Adam to find a new partner sets in a motion of events that leads to Volume 2 taking place and, by extension, Jonah's death.
65* WhatTheHellHero:
66** Directly calls out Thatcher Davis and the MCPD for leaving her brother behind, calling them "absolute scumbags" and asking them how they're going to repay her for Mark's death.
67** She also does this to Adam in Volume 4 when, after he messages her and tells her about Jonah's death, she quickly chews him out for [[LackOfEmpathy not even caring at all about him dying and just passing it off as "bad news"]], bringing up the fact she cares more about him even though she didn't know him as much as Adam did, and demands he be the one break the news to their viewers.
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69[[/folder]]
70!!Torres family
71[[folder:Cesar Torres]]
72!!Cesar Torres
73[[quoteright:183:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tmc_victim_2.png]]
74-->'''Portrayed by: Andrew Long'''
75A close friend of Mark's. Unfortunately, by the time the audience meets him, [[ImpersonationExclusiveCharacter he was already replaced by an Alternate.]]
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77* AuthorAvatar: Played by Andrew Long, a close friend of Alex's.
78* TheCameo: Along with Mark, he appears among the flashing images on the Intruder's TV in Volume 2.
79* DeadAllAlong: He's revealed to have been killed and replaced by an Alternate.
80* ForegoneConclusion: Similarly to Mark, he's listed as "Victim 2" at the beginning of Volume 1.
81* HeterosexualLifePartners: Implied to be one with Mark, trusting him enough with keys to his house.
82* IconicOutfit: His tuxedo, to the point it was reused in a different picture of him in Volume 333.
83* MeaningfulName: His name is likely based off of the biblical Caesar. To make it better, a line that mentions him is written by ''Mark.''
84-->''Jesus said to them, β€œRender to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.” And they marveled at him. - Mark 12:17''
85* NeverFoundTheBody: The police department could not locate his body.
86* SharpDressedMan: Wears a tuxedo in his few appearances.
87* PosthumousCharacter: He's already dead and replaced by the time the audience meets him in Volume 1, and both the location of some of Mark's segments in Exhibition and the entirety of Volume 2 are heavily implied to be his house.
88* WalkingSpoiler: It's impossible to talk about him without mentioning the role he plays in the story, or rather, the role his Alternate plays.
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90[[/folder]]
91
92[[folder:Cesar's Mom]]
93!!Cesar's Mom
94-->'''Portrayed by: [[https://twitter.com/valentinegrrrl_ Faith Cunningham]]'''
95->''"Who are you? Ge- get away from me!"''
96The mother of Cesar Torres who was rushed to the hospital after she was inexplicably found unconcious. Cesar gets Mark to check the cameras in his house, since she screamed before he found her on the ground.
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98* AmbiguousSituation: She isn't present in the ''Vol. 1'' Remake whatsoever, leaving it ambiguous whether she's dead or alive. The introductory scene to the Remake does sample a scene that is heavily similar to her encounter with the Alternate in the original Vol. 1, but that's about it.
99* BigNo: Screams "No!" at the top of her lungs upon encountering an Alternate.
100* NeverFoundTheBody: Heavily implied to be the case in ''Volume 333'', since her prints do not appear in Thatcher's investigation.
101* PosthumousCharacter: Was most likely killed by the Alternate who killed her son.
102* UncertainDoom: She's all but stated to be dead, since Cesar's Alternate mostly likely wouldn't have any use for her after killing her son and luring Mark to their house. Despite this, she doesn't play a role in ''Volume 333'' even though she's ostensibly a victim of Cesar's Alternate.
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104[[/folder]]
105!!Biblical times
106[[folder:Joseph]]
107!!Joseph
108[[quoteright:311:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/josephtmc.png]]
109[[caption-width-right:311:[[labelnote:Wake up, Joseph.]][[BrokenRecord wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up]][[/labelnote]]]]
110Mary's husband in the story of the Nativity. While he sleeps, the Alternate Gabriel visits him to tell him of his plan to deceive the shepherds.
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112* BedtimeBrainwashing: Gabriel appears at his window and attempts to carry this out on him; however, because Joseph is a HeavySleeper, it's unclear if this takes place.
113* HeavySleeper: Manages to sleep like a rock through his meeting with Gabriel in its entirety; not even Gabriel repeating "WAKE UP" ad-nauseam will make him stir in the slightest!
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115[[/folder]]
116[[folder:Noah]]
117!!Noah
118[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tmc_noah_8.png]]
119[[caption-width-right:350:Why do you try to escape what you fear, Noah?]]
120Yes, [[Literature/TheBible that Noah]]. Despite Gabriel's orders of not building the Ark, he did it anyway. For this, he's forced to bring another creature on the boat. One that will give him his "[[ImpliedDeathThreat last message]]".
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122* CoolBoat: His titular Ark, which he built against Gabriel's orders.
123* DefiantToTheEnd: He opted to ignore Gabriel's orders to not build the Ark, implying that he either knew something was wrong with him, or decided to follow God's orders only.
124* KilledOffscreen: He's alluded to be the first ever (human) victim of M.A.D and Alternates in general, although his death is never explicitly seen.
125* OhCrap: He reacts in horror when "Gabriel" appears to them, knowing that he disobeyed his orders of not building the Ark.
126* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Not complying with Gabriel's orders possibly led to the creation of Alternates, who would haunt humanity for millennia to come.
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128[[/folder]]
129[[folder:Adam]]
130!!Adam
131[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/biblical_adam_with_the_anime_eyes_for_some_reason.png]]
132[[caption-width-right:350:''"On the sixth day, a man was created from the dust of the ground-"'']]
133[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see him after being deceived.]]\
134 https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_20221128_095252.jpg The brilliance and beauty of the stars were obscured by The Man, staring down at her.[[/labelnote]]]]
135->''"I don't know... [[ForbiddenFruit It]] was good, but suddenly, [[WhamLine I feel kind of]] [[ArcWords scared]]..."''
136The first man on earth, [[Literature/BookOfGenesis In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made He him]], you know the [[TheExile rest]]. He was shown in a brief cartoon segment that interrupts his MirrorCharacter's footage, serving as a paralleling shot back in ''Volume 2''. After 2 entire volumes of not knowing about his whereabouts, he reappears again in ''Volume 4'''s intro, revealing an awful truth about humanity's origins after being deceived.
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138* AmbiguousSituation: It's heavily implied that the ForbiddenFruit gave him M.A.D., but given the [[ManipulativeBastard nature]] of who's messing with the footage, he may have been a victim of TwistingTheWords.
139** As of ''Volume 4'', we really don't have any idea what the extent of his "alternification"'s implications are. Given that Adam and Murray are meant to be {{Mirror Character}}s and given the latter's ultimate fate, we can infer that Adam was indeed turned/replaced by an Alternate, but that does rise some questions. Namely, How is humanity even a thing after it's first member was presumably killed and replaced by an Alternate? Are they all part Alternate? Did God replace Adam with another human? There's no way to know for sure.
140* AmbiguouslyHuman: And then there's the intro to Volume 4, where it implies that "Gabriel" deceived ''Adam'' first, and potentially ''replaced him with an Alternate.''
141* TheBusCameBack: Not counting Gabriel, he and Eve are the only Biblical Times characters that reappear in the series after their initial debut.
142* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[ForegoneConclusion Naturally]], he alongside Eve were deceived to take a bite out of the ForbiddenFruit, causing the Original Sin.
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144[[/folder]]
145[[folder:Eve]]
146!!Eve
147[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/biblical_eve_fr.png]]
148 [[caption-width-right:350:''"-followed by a woman to keep him company."'']]
149[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see her after being deceived.]]\
150 https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fipr_jgwyacxedz.jpg The Woman was [[ArcWords afraid.]][[/labelnote]]]]
151->''"Come on, God's probably not even looking right now!"''
152The first woman on earth, who was tempted by [[BigBad Satan]] into biting the ForbiddenFruit.
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154* TheBusCameBack: Not counting Gabriel, she and Adam are the only Biblical Times characters that reappear in the series after their initial debut.
155* LongHairIsFeminine: She has vibrant long hair and is the first ever woman created by God.
156* NiceJobBreakingItHero: It's heavily implied that she accidentally gave her husband M.A.D. through the ForbiddenFruit.
157* OhCrap: Her eyes are full of fear when she looks at what may be an Alternate impersonating Adam.
158* UnwittingPawn: For Satan, who uses her to get to Adam.
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160[[/folder]]
161!!Mandela County Police Department
162[[folder:As a whole]]
163!!Mandela County Police Department
164[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_2022_06_26_123111.png]]
165[[caption-width-right:350:''Every Day Gets Brighter'']]
166The utterly useless police department of Mandela County, who are unable to stop the Alternates from killing people and kidnapping children.
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168* DespairEventHorizon: They've seemingly past this a long time ago, given that they're reduced to repeatedly saying "Nothing is worth the risk".
169* HeroWithBadPublicity: By 2004, they're implied to be widely hated among the Mandela County populace to the point that the county is experiencing a mass exodus ''in part'' due to their incompetence.
170* MadnessMantra: "Nothing is worth the risk. Nothing is worth the risk. Nothing is worth the risk."
171* MortonsFork: Either they risk officers and even the phone operators from being subjected to an Alternate attack if they try to help victims in the demons' crosshairs, or they leave the victim to be at an Alternates mercy with nothing but false reassurance. When they say 'nothing is worth the risk', they absolutely mean it.
172* PoliceAreUseless: They willingly leave people to die upon an Alternate encounter, saying that [[MadnessMantra "Nothing is worth the risk"]]. Frustrated people in Mandela County know how useless the police are and Thatcher resents how they don’t understand that the MCPD is just as terrified over their helplessness as everyone else.
173* StandardPoliceMotto: Their motto is revealed to be, ironically enough, "Every Day Gets Brighter" in Volume 333 despite the current Alternate situation [[FromBadToWorse getting worse]] throughout the whole series.
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175[[/folder]]
176[[folder:Lt. Thatcher Davis]]
177!!Lt. Thatcher Davis
178[[quoteright:260:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thatcherprobably.png]]
179[[caption-width-right:260:''"If nobody's there to call you crazy...would you ever find out?"'']]
180-->'''Portrayed by: Thorne Baker'''
181->''"I'm being ridiculed for looking so deep into this, but this is too intriguing for me to ignore. May have an update soon."''
182The lieutenant of the Mandela County Police Department. He seems to be the one behind the investigation of Mark Heathcliff's death and The Intruder overall. Originally serving as an AudienceSurrogate for the first half of Act 1, he became a major protagonist from Volume 333 onwards.
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184* AscendedExtra: Thatcher was originally an AudienceSurrogate, who watched the recordings and existed in text only. In Volume 333, he becomes a plays a much larger role as his investigation into the Alternates is focused on.
185* AudienceSurrogate: Like the audience, he watches the recordings and witnesses the horrors that they contain.
186* ApocalypticGagOrder: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. He orders any evidence about the Distraught Mother's case to not be released to the public for any reason. It's also implied in the Volume 333 teaser that he might have ordered more information about the Alternate invasion to not be published.
187* BigGood: The closest the series has to one as he's the police officer in charge of investigating the Alternates and their many victims. He's also heavily implied to have been the one documenting the series, starting from Volume 1.
188* BrokenAce: Thatcher went from being a respected cop to a broken, sad man after meeting the Alternates; [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished his urging to explore Mark's death by their hands]] leads to his partner, Ruth, dying and an Alternate trying to kill him and take his place. By ''Vol. 4'', [[DeathSeeker Thatcher sounds like he's about to put a gun in his mouth,]] but his resolve to stop the monster that looks like him prevents him from doing so.
189* ChekhovsGunman: He was introduced as a [[TheGhost Mention Only Character]] in Volume 1, then started getting teased to play a major role in a now deleted comment in "My Movie.mp4", which eventually led him to be a major protagonist in Volume 333.
190* CuriosityKilledTheCast: Thatcher's investigation into Mark's death ends up giving him so much grief he never would've expected. {{Downplayed|Trope}} as ''Vol. 4'' reveals he's still alive, but his encounter with the Alternates has cost him his sanity and his partner, Ruth.
191* DavidVersusGoliath: He's [[MeaningfulName named]] after the TropeNamer, after all. At the end of Volume 333, he's face to face against a giant Alternate, and even ''shoots'' the damn thing in the head, but unlike the biblical David however, his weapon did nothing to his oversized adversary. But, like his biblical namesake, he somehow ''survived'' his otherwise fatal encounter despite overwhelming odds.
192* DeathSeeker: "every day gets brighter" reveals that he became this after his encounter with an Alternate. He talks at length about how the Alternates have taken away everything from him, even his identity, leaving him feeling like there's nothing left to live for anymore. However, he still makes it a point to seek his {{Revenge}} against the Alternate who copied him despite knowing what they're capable of, ending the video on a DeterminedDefeatist note.
193--> '''Thatcher:''' I'm gonna kill this thing if it's the last fucking thing I do. I'm alive... but part of me doesn't want to be.
194* DefiantToTheEnd: Even when Thatcher’s firearm proves completely ineffective against an Alternate that overpowers him and laughs triumphantly, he manages to shut it up with another bullet to the face, just as a final "screw you" to the Alternate. Implications are that he survived because of this bold and fearless gesture.
195* DespairEventHorizon: Has firmly crossed this after the events of Volume 333, and displayed in full during "every day gets brighter". While the Alternate failed in breaking him into suicide, the encounter has left him broken all the same. Where he feels completely hopeless, has no idea what he's supposed to do now, and outright says a part of him doesn't want to keep living.
196* {{Deuteragonist}}: Thatcher is the character with the most relevance in the narrative outside of Adam, acting as the BigGood in his quest to put an end to the Alternates rather than give in and die like they want him to. After it became clear Adam was a DecoyProtagonist in ''mandela catalyst'', this left Thatcher as the default protagonist, a role he now shares with Eve.
197* DrowningMySorrows: The 333 Extension reveals that he has been drinking due to a loss of sleep brought upon by the [[TheChainsOfCommanding stress of his job]]. It's hard to blame him, since it's implied that lingering PTSD from his Alternate encounter also plays a role in this.
198* DyingMomentOfAwesome: What does he do upon encountering a truly '''huge''' alternate who [[ShapeshifterGuiltTrip mocks him]] with the voices of the Intruder's victims and his colleague Ruth Weaver? He ''shoots it'' without saying a word. When he's overpowered by the Alternate and the alternate gives him a PreMortemOneLiner while cackling triumphantly, he shoots it ''again'' to make the monster shut up! Subverted in that ''every day gets brighter'' reveals he hasn't died, though the encounter has turned him into a broken and vengeful man.
199* FakingTheDead: Implied. The 333 Extension has an "In Remembrance" post involving him and Ruth Weaver, despite the man being alive (at least to our knowledge).
200* ForegoneConclusion: Thatcher surviving the Alternate encounter in 1992 was technically already spoiled TWICE. First by a (albeit now deleted) pinned comment on "My Movie.mp4" which showed that he's still alive in the 2000s, and second by the [[TrailersAlwaysSpoil Volume 333 Teaser]] itself, showing him in the cover of a magazine dated 1995.
201-->''"This video was found on a ton of computers here at the department this morning. We never received an email, message... anything. It just appeared in our files. I'm being ridiculed for looking so deep into this, but this is too intriguing for me to ignore. May have an update soon." - Lieutenant Thatcher, MCPD''
202* TheGhost: Originally, he appeared in several of the videos, but always behind the camera and/or watching them. {{Averted|Trope}} as of Volume 333, where he's given a proper actor.
203* GondorCallsForAid: Invoked. Despite being a lieutenant of the MCPD, he calls for backup from the Bythorne and Werskha police departments and even ''hacks'' into a Bythorne channel to request just about any aid. [[NoHelpIsComing Nobody comes]] and he's forced to face the giant Alternate inside the police station alone.
204* HistoryRepeats: As seen in MeaningfulName below, this isn't the first time that a [[DavidVersusGoliath David fought against a giant]]. {{Downplayed|Trope}} however, in while he manages to survive the fight against the giant alternate, unlike his biblical namesake he did ''not'' slay his enemy. Although it could be argued his refusal to fear the Alternate and allow it to break him into suicide means he "defeated" it. [[DespairEventHorizon He certainly doesn't feel like it, however.]]
205* IronicEcho: The PreMortemOneLiner he receives from an Alternate is the exact same Cesar's Alternate gave to Mark, the very own man he was investigating.
206* MeaningfulName: His last name is one letter off from [[Literature/BooksOfSamuel David]], who fought the giant Goliath in the Bible.
207* MyGreatestFailure: Sees his abandoning of Ruth Weaver to the Alternate in the Murray House]] to be this. Spending a good amount of Volume 4 bemoaning and vilifying his cowardice, and driving himself to near-hysteric tears of grief and remorse over throwing his best friend and "guardian angel" into the fire to save himself because he was too afraid.
208* NarratorAllAlong: It's heavily implied that he has been documenting the entire series chronologically from Volume 1 to Volume 2. A [[https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugkx19FLIPNB5vZBs9bjQopnKaox97y3ZlIe community post]] even implies that he has a VHS copy of ''Overthrone'', the very first episode of the series.
209* NervesOfSteel: Arguably Thatcher's signature trait, is him being able to keep calm and not let fear consume him in justifiably terrifying situations. And it is all but outright said that this ability is why he's survived encounters with the Alternates. Like when his Follower corners him and laughs after proving it is ImmuneToBullets, Thatcher [[DefiantToTheEnd defiantly shoots it in the face one last time]], the act making it ultimately leave him with his life. And later, proving that to be the case when he does it again when Ruth's Alternate visits him at night. Thatcher, while clearly shaken by it's sudden arrival, just ''calmly stays still and stares it down''. Refusing to show fear even when it ''[[{{Jumpscare}} suddenly lunges in his direction]]'' in a desperate attempt to scare him, and thus the alternate slowly slithers away into the shadows after it becomes clear he isn't afraid.
210* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Insists on continuing his investigation into Mark Heathcliff and the Intruder despite his promotion allowing him to step back and rest for a bit. This only leads to the presumed death of his friend Ruth Weaver and him being scarred for life following an encounter with an Alternate.
211* OddNameOut: Unlike other human characters who have biblical ''first'' names, Thatcher Davis is so far the only one to have a biblical ''last'' name.
212* PoliceAreUseless: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructs]] this trope ''hard'' in "every day gets brighter", where he expresses his frustrations with people blaming the MCPD for the various disappearances caused by the Alternates and calling into question their competence when in reality the police are just as helpless and terrified of the Alternates as the civilians are.
213-->'''Thatcher Davis''': "They don't realize that... we're in the same [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] boat as they are."
214* StopOrIWillShoot: Yells this at an Alternate as it floats towards him.
215* TooDumbToLive: Thatch, we get it. You're not doing your best mentally right now, but trusting a voice that says to be your intuition while referring to you in third person into following "the screams" is just a bad idea... It's heavily implied that following the screams led to his encounter with Adam, who was turning into an Alternate by that point.
216-->WAKE UP, THATCH[ER]. CAN YOU HEAR ME? I AM YOUR INTUIT[ION]. DO YOU HEAR [THE] SCR[EAMS?] GO AND SEE.
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218[[/folder]]
219[[folder:Sgt. Ruth Weaver]]
220!!Sgt. Ruth Weaver
221[[quoteright:276:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_2022_06_04_102115.png]]
222[[caption-width-right:276:''"What, did you get a similar call?"'']]
223-->'''Portrayed by: Bee "Fruitmasseuse" L.'''
224->''"You do realize you just got promoted, right? You don't have to work on this bullshit case anymore."''
225The employee of the month in the MCPD. She, alongside Thatcher, were one of the only available police officers during the Intruder's InvasionOfTheBabySnatchers.
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227* InformedAbility: She is represented by a poster featuring her as the employee of the month. This implies she has certain skills, which aren't really shown.
228* MeaningfulName: Named after [[Literature/BookOfRuth Biblical Ruth]], who is an ancestor of King David. Similarly to Biblical Ruth, her story ends by kickstarting the beginning of David's story (or Davi'''s''', in Weaver's case).
229* SmallRoleBigImpact: Is a strong contender for the shortest screentime a named character has in the series, yet her death is crucial to Thatcher's character arc from Volume 333 onwards.
230* WeHardlyKnewYe: Dies, or at the very least goes MIA, in the very same episode she's introduced in. Vol.4 definitively confirms that she's dead, with her alternate appearing in Thatcher's house in the middle of the night.
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232[[/folder]]
233
234[[folder:Evelin Miller]]
235!!Evelin Miller
236[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2009eve.png]] %%if you can provide a better picture for her id be thankful
237[[caption-width-right:250:''"What's with the closet? The old TV? Why do you still-"'']]
238[[caption-width-right:250:[[labelnote:Click here to see her on the MCPD website]]\
239https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_2022_08_01_124716.png ''"Can I at least have some closure, Adam?"''[[/labelnote]]]]
240-->'''Portrayed by: bl11nsided'''
241->''"He was always the nicest guy, up until he started the investigations with Jonah..."''
242A witness of the BPS who had extremely close connections to Adam.
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244* ArbitrarySkepticism: Flat out doesn't believe in the paranormal, despite the current Alternate crisis opening the door for other paranormal phenomena being real.
245* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: To show the audience that a significant amount of time has passed between the events seen in the mandelapolice.com ARG and Volume 4, she is seen with her hair constantly tied in a ponytail and with bangs, as opposed to her first appearance which showed her with longer, untied hair and without the bangs.
246* GoMadFromTheRevelation: After a fight with Adam, Evelin vaguely recounts "some awful, terrible things that [she wishes] he never told [her]". Given the ending revelation, it's implied that she now has MAD.
247* MeaningfulName: A woman named '''Eve'''lin, named after the first woman to ever exist in the bible, who's in a close relationship with a man named '''Adam'''. She takes on the name even more in Volume 4 in two separate ocassions, firstly by secretly viewing a tape that was meant to be only viewed by Dave, which cost her her job at [=MandelaTECH=], much like how Eve biting the forbidden fruit cost her her place in Eden. And secondly, by entering the archive room in the MCPD in order to look through Adam's file, leading her into realizing his possible status as an SleeperAgent Alternate and leaving her locked inside the building with an Alternate inside.
248* NoodleIncident:
249** ''What'' exactly Adam said to her that left her in such a poor mental state is unknown, just that it was "hurtful" and led to the two breaking up, Adam writing her off as crazy, while Evelin continues trying to reach out to him and is concerned.
250** ''mandela catalyst'' would reveal she had an encounter with "The Preacher". While it is ambiguous ''when'' this encounter occurred, as "The Preacher" spoke using Adam's voice and she had no surprise over him being near her despite having not heard from him in weeks, and Evelin was last seen in Vol. 4 still in the Mandela County Sheriff's Department, it's implied this encounter occurred ''before'' she broke up with Adam, and is connected to how she and Adam broke up, also implying she was afflicted with M.A.D. from it.
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252[[/folder]]
253
254!!Bythorne Paranormal Society
255[[folder:In General]]
256!!Bythorne Paranormal Society
257[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bps.jpg]]
258A cheap ParanormalInvestigation team operating in Bythorne county.
259----
260* EarlyBirdCameo: Bythorne County was originally mentioned in "Intruder Alert" as one of the counties that the Intruder stole children from.
261* {{Expy}}: Both their logo and name are a direct reference to the RealLife Paranormal Investigation team, [[Series/GhostHunters The Atlantic Paranormal Society]], or TAPS.
262* OddlySmallOrganization: Shown to be comprised of two people in 2007 and three people in 2009. Justified since they're just a cheap paranormal team wanting to make a quick buck, and as it's later revealed, they started out as a highschool paranormal activity club.
263* WhoYouGonnaCall: On the surface, they're a legitimate cheap Paranormal Investigation team. They even have proper equipment like spirit boxes and cameras, which is implied to have caused them to be wanted criminals in the first place.
264----
265[[/folder]]
266
267[[folder:Sarah Heathcliff]]
268!!Sarah Heathcliff
269For tropes applying to her, see above in "The Heathcliff family".
270[[/folder]]
271
272[[folder:"The Quiet Kids"]]
273!!"The Quiet Kids"/Victims 3 and 4
274->''"We lived our whole lives under the radar, right? Like the quiet ki-"''
275The two more iconic members of the BPS, and the first ones to be introduced, conformed of [[ThoseTwoGuys Adam Murray and Jonah Marshall]]. Dialogue in Volume 2 seems to imply that investigating the paranormal isn't their motivation at all, but to find someone who Adam lost, presumably his own mother.
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277* AllWorkVsAllPlay: In Volume 2, while Adam is centered around making an at least decent job as a paranormal investigator, Jonah just sits there cracking jokes and expressing his uneasiness for the house. This gets played with as the series continues, as it becomes more obvious Adam cares less about doing a decent job, and more about finding more evidence of Alternates no matter the cost, whereas Jonah is trying to act as a grounding agent to Adam by downplaying the situation in the hopes of dissuading Adam from continuing.
278* BolivianArmyEnding: By the end of Volume 2, Adam is stuck in a house without any escape while Jonah is being followed by an alternate heavily implied to be the Intruder. While Adam ultimately is revealed to be alive, [[UncertainDoom the same can't be said for Jonah.]]
279* CallBack: Prior to being revealed to be the third and fourth victims, both of the members of the Society were introduced in a community post showing their WantedPoster, which looked suspiciously similar to the "victim 1 and victim 2" scene back in Volume 1, alluding to their role in the episode.
280* ForegoneConclusion: Much like their predecessors, they're both marked as Victim 3 and Victim 4. Downplayed in that while they aren't dead at the end of Volume 2, they're [[UncertainDoom still in a bad situation]] without any means to escape the Alternates. While Adam would turn up alive in Vol. 4, Jonah's status is still unknown.
281* HairContrastDuo: Adam, whose hair looks darker in his photo, is the more serious and braver of the two, while light-haired Jonah is ThePrankster who gets more easily scared. Somewhat subverted as Adam's actor is actually blond.
282* PriceOnTheirHead: Due to their breaking of the GodzillaThreshold against the Intruder, both of them are wanted by the FBI with a reward of $100,000 on their heads.
283* VitriolicBestBuds: In contrast to Mark and Cesar, who were implied to be [[HeterosexualLifePartners close friends]], both Jonah and Adam tease and argue with each other, but are the best of friends. Subverted in ''Volume 4'', where it's revealed that Adam didn't even consider Jonah, or anyone for that matter, as his friend.
284* WrongGenreSavvy: Their current situation could have been avoided were they smart enough to realize that the Woman's house was being "haunted" by Alternates, not by ghosts.
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286[[/folder]]
287
288[[folder:Adam Murray]]
289!!Adam Murray
290[[quoteright:198:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wanted.png]]
291[[caption-width-right:198:''"He wasn't my best friend, I was HIS best friend. I don't have friends."'']]
292[[caption-width-right:198:[[labelnote:Click here to see him as the "suspect"/Jester.]]\
293https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/image_0593.png ''"[[JumpScare [UNINTELLIGIBLE SCREAMING] ]] HELP!"''[[/labelnote]]]]
294-->'''Portrayed by: [[https://twitter.com/TyDoesVoices Ty Osborne]]'''
295->''"She [[NeverMyFault tries to make me sound like I'm crazy]], and I feel like [[TemptingFate I know myself enough]] to know that's fucking bullshit."''
296The leader and co-founder of the Bythorne Paranormal Society, who is currently wanted alongside his "friend" Jonah by the {{UsefulNotes/FBI}} for breaking with [[GodzillaThreshold countermeasures against the Intruder.]]
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298* AmbiguouslyHuman: Whatever the Intruder did to him as a child did not leave him entirely human, if the Adam we've been following is the original Adam at all. When he was a toddler, he didn't react at all to any of the emotion tests and he's shown a remarkable resistance to the Alternates attempting to scare him. It doesn't help that his biblical counterpart was also heavily implied to be replaced by an Alternate, and that during his stay at Cesar's house, a voice can be heard telling Adam to "wake up", which in retrospect is implying he's a SleeperAgent. It's especially noteworthy when in The Intruder's final speech in Volume 4, he talks about Adam in ''two distinct'' ways: when talking about the Infant Adam he cradled in his arms and took away, he says "Him", where as when he's talking to Adam directly he says ''"You"'', heavily implying that the "Adam" he is speaking to is ''not'' the same Adam as the ''human'' infant he stole away.
299* AlasPoorVillain:
300** Yes, he was indisputably an asshole to pretty much ''anyone'' he's ever interacted with, including his work partner, his best friend, and even two of his exes, but come on! No one deserves to turn into the same vein of creatures[[note]]well, close enough vein of creatures. It was actually Intruder who killed his mom.[[/note]] that drove your mother to suicide and, upon the realization, suffer for what's implied to be several hours after multiple attempts to take your own life, [[ICannotSelfTerminate all failing]] yet [[AndIMustScream still excruciatingly painful]].
301--->''"Please... SOMEONE KILL ME!"''
302** Thatcher {{invoke|dTrope}}s this in ''Presto'', outright telling Adam he doesn't even care about the arrest warrant on him anymore, he just sees that Adam is in a lot of pain and wants to help him.
303* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: ''mandela catalyst'' has made it very clear that he's not human anymore.
304* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Adam is practically obsessed with the Alternate happenings in Mandela and wants to know more about them to the point where he cares more about the knowledge than his fellow man. In an ironic twist, ''mandela catalyst'' reveals he's a sleeper agent that the Intruder made, and Adam is so shocked that he tries to kill himself. In his pursuit of the truth, he discovers a secret that even ''he'' doesn't want to know.
305* BerserkButton: During his argument with Jonah in Volume 2, Jonah snaps at him that they never should've gone looking for Adam's mother, and that she's probably dead by now. Adam doesn't take it well.
306-->'''Adam:''' "''What'' did you just [[PrecisionFStrike fucking say to me?]]"
307* BigShutUp: Screams this in a corrupted clip in ''Vol. 4''.
308-->''"SHUT THE FUCK UP! I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF YOU! PLEASE, JUST GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY H-"''
309* BlackEyesOfCrazy: If you invert the colors of his suspect photo from ''mandela catalyst'', you'll notice his sclerae is now black, and the irises white.
310* BodyHorror: When he's shown talking to Thatcher in "Presto", his eyes have entirely sunken in, his body has become extremely gaunt, and his jaw has become dislocated and misshapen.
311* BungledSuicide: It's implied he tried to kill himself by drinking bleach, following his full transformation into an Alternate. It didn't work out, and Adam is found by Thatcher desperately begging for someone to kill him.
312* ConditionedToAcceptHorror: Despite the Intruder's multiple attempts to scare him, he never gives in. If anything, it made him more interested in the case.
313* ConnectedAllAlong: As was often theorized by the fandom, ''Volume 333'' confirms his identity as the Distraught Woman's son.
314* DecoyProtagonist: Adam is initially set up to be one of the key players in the ''Mandela Catalogue'' narrative, being one of the two leads in Vol. 2, Volume 1 and Vol.333 being connected to his origins, and acting as the {{deuteragonist}} in Vol.4. ''mandela catalyst'' however would see him be transformed into an Alternate, a tool to serve the Intruder's objective, begging Thatcher Davis to kill him [[ICannotSelfTerminate after he failed to himself.]] The radio story that plays shortly before Thatcher finds him, "The Fate of the Jester", perfectly {{lampshade|Hanging}}s this.
315-->'''Radio:''' As the boy laid there dormant, all of his humanity drained into a murky puddle, milky eyes cut through the thick blackness of the bedroom, a spectator. ''He was no longer the hero of this story, just a cog in the machine.''
316* DissonantSerenity: Vol.4 has him sporting a surprisingly cavalier attitude when Jonah's possible death, with even his eulogy videos being half-assed, 2009 [=YouTube=] quality. It's one of the hints towards Vol.4's revelation that he may be a sleeper Alternate.
317* DrivenToSuicide: Horribly subverted. Adam tries to kill himself by downing a bottle of bleach when he's "activated" as a sleeper Alternate, but because Alternates can't die by conventional means, [[BungledSuicide all the bleach does is burn his throat and vocal cords.]] By the time Thatcher finds him, [[AndIMustScream he's in a lot of pain, and all Adam can do is unintelligibly scream]] while [[DeathSeeker begging the detective to kill him.]]
318* FaceMonsterTurn: By the time of ''mandela catalyst'', Adam has become an Alternate, with his nature as an "Alternate Sleeper" finally realized.
319* ForgottenFirstMeeting: The captions in Volume 2 imply he has one with the Intruder, which may be {{Justified|Trope}} due to the [[InvasionOfTheBabySnatchers nature]] of the latter. Volume 333 expands on this by implying that he's been scared of the TV to the point his mother decided to unplug it. This doesn't seem to have worked, however, as implied by multiple clips of a child's eye watching an unplugged TV switching channels rapidly throughout the video. The Intruder tries to remind him again during Volume 4 via hacking Adam's computer.
320* HearingVoices: Heavily implied in ''Volume 4'' and ''mandela catalyst''. ''In Volume 4'', he tells something to "shut up" and to "get the fuck out of my head!" Under the screaming at the end of ''mandela catalyst'', Adam could possibly be saying "there is someone--", implying a presence in his mind. Though unexplained, the cause of this definitely has something to do with the Alternates.
321* HistoryRepeats: As shown in MeaningfulName below, this [[PlotParallel isn't]] the first time Satan tricks someone named Adam by proxy. Both of them were tricked via a woman, who offers them something seemingly harmless at first, which ultimately results in their demise... [[PlayingWithATrope or not]], as Adam ends up surviving... [[AmbiguouslyHuman allegedly]]... [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie Yeah, no]]. At the end of ''mandela catalyst'', it's heavily implied that he as well as his biblical counterpart were turned into Alternates.
322* ICannotSelfTerminate: After starting to turn into an Alternate, he's implied to have drank a bottle of bleach to presumably [[DyingAsYourself die as a human]]. However, due to the invulnerability that comes with being an Alternate, he doesn't quite make it, leaving him still alive and in excruciating pain. The ending of ''mandela catalyst'' shows him screaming for Thatcher to kill him.
323* InTheHood: He wears a hoodie.
324* IWillFindYou: His motives for founding the BPS is to find someone who was taken away from him by the Alternates, his own mother. Unfortunately for him, he seems unaware that she had died long before his crusade started.
325* ItsAllMyFault: ''Presto'' has him tell Thatcher that he blames himself for Jonah's death. He may have hated Jonah, but he never wanted him to die, and laments that Jonah's death was his fault for ignoring the warnings of "God".
326* {{Jerkass}}:
327** The 333 extension makes clear his lashing out at Jonah was ''not'' an isolated incident, rather he has a history of lashing out at people who care about him and [[NeverMyFault blaming them for the issues]]. While testimonial from Evelin makes it sound like he was once a nice guy until he started investigating the Alternates, she later admits that he said some awful things to her in a big fight they had, with Adam's testimonial having him claim ''she'' has a screw loose and is just bad-mouthing him.
328--->'''Adam:''' I have no idea what her issue was, she keeps making shit up about me. Just on a whim, ''constantly'', there's always something new with-- [static] --I have no idea what she's like with other guys, or if she's had this problem with other guys in past relationships, but, eh, there's ''gotta'' be something up with her.-- [static] -- She tries to make me sound like I'm crazy, and I feel like I know myself enough to know that that's [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] ''bullshit''. Like, ''[[SarcasmMode I'm sorry]]'' for being the mentally stable one in our relationship. She's got some screws loose up there man!
329** Vol. 4 makes it clear this is just how he ''naturally'' is, having a distinct LackOfEmpathy for Sarah and Jonah when dragging them on his expeditions, and caring more about his investigation about the Alternates than the fact Jonah is more than likely ''dead'', something Sarah [[WhatTheHellHero calls him out on]]. A look at his messages similarly shows him to have pissed off several others with his behavior, including his ex-girlfriend Evelin who he's ghosted, and someone named Amanda who says "fuck you. youll get whats coming".
330* LackOfEmpathy: In [[https://youtu.be/rf-OSO5Wrbk The Mandela Catalogue Vol. 4]], Adam is far from concerned about Jonah's fate and more focused on the footage of the alternates he got. When Sarah [[WhatTheHellHero calls him out on this]], he just hangs up on her.
331* LaughingMad: After he's transformed into an Alternate and found by Thatcher Davis, he tries begging him to kill him. After the video glitches out though, he can be heard screaming in the background, before it eventually gives way to insane laughter. Fitting when the radio story that played right before Thatcher found Adam, "The Fate of the Jester", perfectly illustrates Adam's fate, as Adam is no longer human, but instead "The Jester".
332* MarriedToTheJob: He seems to be very centered about his job as a paranormal investigator, going as far as accepting calls and jobs during his time as a wanted criminal and ignoring Jonah's warnings about entering the Woman's house after realizing that there was more than a cat haunting it.
333* MeaningfulName: He's named after [[Literature/BookOfGenesis Adam]], the first man to ever exist in the bible, who defected from {{God}} by eating the ForbiddenFruit after being tricked by {{Satan}}.
334* MirrorCharacter: To Biblical Adam.
335* MissingMom: It's heavily implied that his motivation of going after the Alternates is attributed to his searching for his long-dead mother.
336* NoSell: Despite regularly chasing after Alternates, Adam is never actually afflicted with M.A.D., even when directly interacting with The Intruder. As M.A.D. is explicitly a result of someone being told information they ''don't'' want to know, the implication is that because Adam is seeking the Alternates out, he ''can't'' be afflicted with M.A.D., as he ''wants'' to know.
337* RuleOfSymbolism: Moments before the reveal of him becoming an Alternate, we can hear a radio audiobook of Chapter 1 of "The Fate of the Jester", the excerpt that is read applying perfectly to Adam and his role in the narrative.
338** The book is about a boy who lost his humanity in his sleep, who was no longer the "hero of this story" but instead a "cog in a machine". Adam was the closest character to a main protagonist in the series thanks to his focus in ''Vol.2'' and ''Vol.4'', and his quest for his MissingMom sounds like a standard character motivation for a lead. He's a ''DecoyProtagonist'' though, an UnwittingPawn of Gabriel and the Intruder in their own plans, nor is he even the ''[[TomatoInTheMirror real]]'' Adam Murray, but an Alternate SleeperAgent that has finally been activated.
339** Jesters are usually falsely equated with clowns and seen as TheFool. {{Court Jester}}s meanwhile are hardly as straightforward, being able to often say harsh truths and scathing criticisms of royalty under the guise of humor, and are just as likely to be skilled manipulators that very few suspect. As a SleeperAgent, Adam's role was to further the plans of Gabriel and the Intruder, implicitly by spreading M.A.D. to others by getting his partners to "bear witness" to Alternates during their hunts. Rather than be seen as dangerous or the like though, Adam is instead viewed by his friends as mentally troubled at best, a complete {{jerkass}} at worst, allowing him to continue his hunts with new partners beneath their notice under the idea he's just obsessed rather than any ulterior motive.
340* SanitySlippage: Adam ends up suffering a mental breakdown upon realizing his origins, not helped by the Intruder activating him and initiating a PainfulTransformation. Adam tries [[DyingAsYourself drinking a bottle of bleach]] to kill himself before that can happen, but it ends up a BungledSuicide due to his Alternate physiology, simply burning his throat instead. When Thatcher Davis finds him, he lets out a painful scream and tries ''begging'' Thatcher to kill him, before he eventually starts LaughingMad, [[DeathOfPersonality Adam giving way to "The Jester"]].
341* SleeperAgent: The Intruder hints that Adam is a "Sleeper Alternate" of some kind in ''Vol 4'', claiming that "your skin is not your own" and that "you're not the real you". The viewer is even shown distorted pictures of Adam at the volume's end, adding to this belief further.
342* ThrillSeeker: His initial reaction upon seeing that there might be more than a ghost cat to the case? Saying that it's "kinda interesting", proceeding with insisting to go back into the house despite Jonah's protests. This is expanded upon in Vol. 4 with the reveal he's been doing this before with Sarah, specifically searching for Alternates. In both cases, Sarah and Jonah can't abide by his recklessness any longer, and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere tell him to find someone else to drag with him.]]
343* TomatoInTheMirror: There's an implication that the Intruder did ''something'' to Adam when he was younger that made him less human; the details are murky, but ''Vol. 4'' implies that he's an Alternate sleeper agent. Did the Intruder take the actual Adam and replace him with an Alternate, and he's been dormant about his true nature this entire time? Did he transform him into an Alternate-human hybrid? But whatever the case, it's safe to say that the ''thing'' in ''mandela catalyst'' isn't Adam anymore. ''Presto'' demonstrates that while he still retains some level of the "Adam" identity, he's slowly losing himself more and more, struggling to think straight while talking to Thatcher.
344* UnwittingPawn: Adam, being an Alternate SleeperAgent, was an unsuspecting tool in the plans of Gabriel and the Intruder. ''What'' his role was is somewhat unclear, but it's heavily implied his role was to inflict others with M.A.D. and make them susceptible to the Alternates via his hunts and making people be his partners, as Sarah, Eve, and Jonah all mentally suffered from the hunts and quit out of frustration with Adam, while Adam was seemingly impervious to M.A.D. and just looked for new partners. Only after he had done all he could would he be activated, the Intruder doing so at the end of Vol.4, and leaving him in a state of agony as he begs for death in ''mandela catalyst''. The radio show playing right before Thatcher Davis finds him, "The Fate of the Jester", would {{lampshade|Hanging}} this by calling "The Jester"/Adam a "cog in a machine" that thought he was "the hero of this story".
345* VillainProtagonist: Of ''Volume 4'' and retroactively ''Volume 2''.
346** The series has made it very clear that Adam exhibits, at the very least, sociopathic behavior and aggressive behavior towards close ones, and if the ''333 Extension'' is a reliable source, he would even lash out at his girlfriend, which led to her reporting him and the entire organization to the MCPD. And even then, [[NeverMyFault he doesn't acknowledge that he's at fault]].
347** In ''Volume 4'', Adam and Sarah's plotline literally revolves around the fact that Adam is being a complete asshole over Jonah, the one person that cared for him and who considered him his best friend, dying. In that same episode, we can see subtle clues that suggest that Adam has been a jerk towards more people than it was shown, including someone named "Amanda."
348* WalkingSpoiler: Adam's true nature is heavily tied to the overarching plot of the series, and it's hard to talk about him without discussing how he's a DecoyProtagonist, but also an Alternate SleeperAgent.
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350[[/folder]]
351
352[[folder:Jonah Marshall]]
353!!Jonah Marshall
354[[quoteright:198:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wanted_0.png]]
355[[caption-width-right:198:''"Maybe it's mass hysteria. Do you think this is the rise of the war on the alternates?"'']]
356-->'''Portrayed by: Gabriel Linan'''
357->''"Ugh, really? A freaking cat alternate?"''
358The second member of the Bythorne Paranormal Society, Adam's best friend, and ThePrankster of the two. Unlike Adam, he isn't brave enough to go into investigations himself, so he just reduces to be the "man in the chair".
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360* AmbiguousSituation: Jonah's current status is unknown. At the end of Volume 2, he pulls over after fleeing the house and is seemingly accosted by...''something,'' with a muffled scream being the last we hear of him. In Volume 4, Adam is revealed to be alive, but he seemingly has no idea what happened to Jonah, and though he and Sarah assume that he's dead, we don't actually have confirmation whether Jonah survived the events of Volume 2 or not.
361* ArbitrarySkepticism: Despite being in a paranormal investigation team, [[EskimosArentReal he doesn't fully believe in Alternates]], thinking of it as a mass hysteria of sorts. This gets {{subverted|Trope}} as the situation gets worse, as it turns out he ''does'' fully believe, he was just downplaying it in the hopes Adam would give up on the expeditions if he thought they were pointless, Jonah outright calling them "death marches" due to how dangerous they are.
362* CowardlySidekick: He doesn't want to enter the Woman's house, leaving Adam to do all the work. He justifies himself by saying that he's [[BlatantLies "allergic to cats"]].
363* DelinquentHair: His hair is dyed white, that alongside the fact that he's literally a wanted criminal makes him qualify.
364* GenreSavvy: He knows that staying longer in the Woman's house would only bring trouble and drives away after failing to convince Adam to go with him.
365* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Adam, who he initially seems reluctant in abandoning after everything goes downhill. And even then he heavily regrets leaving him behind. Vol. 4 however reveals this to be sadly one-sided on Jonah's side, as Adam only worked with him due to Sarah no longer wanting part in his expeditions, and Adam displays a LackOfEmpathy to the idea that Jonah died. He even denies Jonah being his best friend, saying he was just Jonah's best friend, not the other way around.
366* HistoryRepeats: As shown in MeaningfulName below, this isn't the first time a Jonah runs away from {{God}} (or at least someone who claims to be him in BPS Jonah's case), and by extension abandoning someone who needs to repent. In BPS Jonah's case, it was his friend Adam. And in Biblical Jonah's case, the whole city of Nineveh.
367* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Jonah is sarcastic, lazy, and a [[TheStoner stoner]] who ultimately left Adam behind to save his own life, but he genuinely cares about Adam's well-being, to the point of only being involved in the group for Adam's sake, and ''tried'' to get Adam to come with him instead of staying at the house, only giving up after Adam told him to just leave.
368* MeaningfulName: He's named after [[Literature/BookOfJonah Jonah]], one of the 12 minor prophets, who [[WhatTheHellHero ran away from God Himself]].
369* OnlyInItForTheMoney: In contrast to Adam's increasing interest in the "ghost cat" case right from the start, the only thing that gets a reaction out of Jonah is the prospect of a hefty paycheck.
370-->'''Woman:''' How about $500 a night?\
371'''Jonah:''' Oh, ''hell yeah''!
372* ThePrankster: He admittedly "screws around sometimes" with Adam, this is {{exploited}} by the Intruder, who makes it seem like Jonah's actively trying to prank him to cause conflict between them.
373* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives this to Adam once he reaches his limit after realizing that the Paranormal Case was yet another Alternate encounter, which were implied to have caused them to be wanted by the FBI in the first place.
374* TheStoner: While Adam and Jonah are on their way to their client's house, Jonah has this to say about her:
375-->'''Jonah:''' "...and who's to say she's not even crazy. Who's to say she's not as high as I'm going to be in 30 minutes?"
376** In Volume 4, the last conversation Adam and Jonah had through the messenger program involved drugs, with Jonah saying that Adam should try the 25mg version of a drug next time.
377* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Leaves Adam behind and gets the hell out of the house after getting into an argument with him. Unfortunately for him, the Intruder is inside his GPS... and chews him out for leaving his best friend in a hostile area with no means of getting out.
378* TemptingFate: Says that it's a good thing that the [=GPSes=] weren't outlawed, as it's unlikely that the Intruder could appear in their screens. At the end of the video, this is how the Intruder torments him for abandoning his friend.
379* TroubleFollowsYouHome: Fleeing from the house and leaving Adam to fend himself with the Intruder, Jonah drives away in palpable panic and grief over what he's done. However, as Alternates are attracted to dread and Adam has long since lost his fear of their kind, the Intruder spends little time meddling with him now that they're alone and instead stalks Jonah in his own car to torment him via his GPS.
380* UncertainDoom: His final scene in Vol. 2 is canonically the last time he's been seen alive at the moment, and it does not bode well for him, being harrassed by The Intruder and having pulled over to let out a muffled scream. While it is ''possible'' to survive a confrontation with an Alternate as Lt. Thatcher demonstrated, Jonah's odds aren't exactly looking good. Adam himself believes Jonah is dead, as the former claims that after walking in the snow for a while, he found Jonah's car pulled over still, but no sign of Jonah, leading to him just taking the car himself without a second thought for Jonah.
381* WhatTheHellHero: The Intruder torments him with the fact he left Adam all alone in the middle of nowhere, with no means of transportations.
382----
383[[/folder]]
384
385!!Others
386
387[[folder:Lynn Murray]]
388!!Lynn Murray
389[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dm_2.png]]
390[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:distraught at the sight of her missing infant]][[DrivenToSuicide https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/howsithanging.png]] [[/labelnote]]]]
391-->'''Portrayed by: [=-Lighth0use-=]'''
392->''"What do you mean? Do you realize how young he is?"''
393A mother who had divorced her husband and gets her baby kidnapped by the Intruder.
394----
395* AmicableExes: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. She and Jude clearly aren't the best of friends, but are willing to help each other out with their son's needs.
396* ArtShift: Upon committing suicide, her body briefly changes to that of a ''real woman'' with long hair. The lower half of her corpse we see in Volume 333 resembles this brief look.
397* DrivenToSuicide: She kills herself after she finds her baby missing.
398* MadnessMantra: The words "distraught at the sight of her missing infant" appears multiple times after her suicide.
399* MeaningfulName: Her name is presumably short for "'''Mari'''lynn", since she's a mother whom the Intruder mocks by playing the song "Ave ''Maria''" after kidnapping her child.
400* PosthumousCharacter: Her hanging corpse has far more screentime than all of her living appearances.
401----
402[[/folder]]
403
404[[folder:Jude Murray]]
405!!Jude Murray
406-->'''Portrayed by: Michael Vale'''
407->''"I don't know what to do... [[{{Understatement}} I think my wife's hurt...]]"''
408A man who had divorced his wife and gets his baby kidnapped by the Intruder,
409----
410* ChekhovsGunman: He's said to play a major role in a future installment. Whether that installment was Volume 333 or a future episode is unknown.
411* DisappearedDad: Assuming he didn't die and is in fact Adam's father, he isn't remotely implied to continue to stay with Adam in Volume 2.
412* MeaningfulName: He might have been named after the [[Literature/EpistleOfJude Biblical Jude]].
413* SmallRoleBigImpact: He[[note]]Or an alternate pretending to be him[[/note]] is the one who calls Thatcher Davis into his wife's home, leading to Ruth's presumed death and Thatcher facing off against a giant Alternate that leaves the poor lieutenant a broken man.
414* UncertainDoom: He is not alluded to outside of Vol. 333. In Vol. 2, it's heavily implied Adam is searching specifically for his MissingMom, leaving it unknown if Jude is also considered missing.
415----
416[[/folder]]
417
418[[folder:Mervin Marshall]]
419!!Mervin Marshall
420[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mervin.png]]
421[[caption-width-right:200:[[UnknownCharacter [AWAITING QUESTIONING] ]] ]]
422-->'''Portrayed by: Creator/BobOdenkirk (appearance only)'''
423->''"You know what they say!"''
424A lawyer who was being investigated at some point by Thatcher Davis before 2004.
425----
426* FiveFiveFive: A variation. His entire phone number consists entirely of [[ArcNumber threes]].
427* AlliterativeName: '''M'''ervin '''M'''arshall.
428* AmbiguousSituation: We don't know what he exactly did to get arrested by the MCPD, at least for the time being.
429* AmbiguouslyRelated: His "meme" self was Jonah Marshall's father. It's unclear if they actually canonically share any relation or if they coincidentally have the same last name.
430* AmoralAttorney: Implied. Mervin must have done ''something'' to be investigated by Davis and to be held for questioning. There's also the fact that he's an expy of Saul Goodman (a well-known "criminal lawyer").
431* AscendedMeme: He started out as an inside joke in the Patreon-Only Discord server, and eventually became canonical to the series.
432* {{Expy}}: Of [[Characters/BreakingBadSaulGoodman Saul Goodman]], obviously. Though it’s currently unknown if he is as much of a "criminal lawyer" as Saul is.
433* GenreRefugee: A hilarious parody of [[Characters/BreakingBadSaulGoodman Saul Goodman]] with a corny catchphrase of "You Know What They Say!" sticks out like a sore thumb in the dark and evil-infested world of the ''The Mandela Catalogue''.
434* JokeCharacter: A rather comedic parody of Saul Goodman who sticks out from the mostly dark tone of the 333 Extension.
435* MoodWhiplash: His case file comes after we learn of Sarah Heathcliff's [[ArchEnemy seething hatred of the MCPD]], the deteriorating relationship between Evelin and Adam and the full details of Mark Heathcliff's last days. This causes quite a dramatic shift in tone.
436* OddNameOut: The only character so far to ''not'' have a biblical name. Justified due to his status as an AscendedMeme and in part due to ''Saul'' being a biblical name.
437* OutlivingOnesOffspring: If he's canonically Jonah's father, then he outlived his son following his death in ''Volume 2''.
438
439----
440[[/folder]]
441[[folder:Dave Lee]]
442!!Dave Lee
443[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_2022_06_05_090512.png]]
444[[caption-width-right:200:''"Can you remember our last good day? [[SoulCrushingRetailJob Yeah, me neither.]]"'']]
445-->'''Portrayed by: Alex Kister'''
446->''"If you need any more help, you can call me back or just send me another letter... and I'll be awaiting a response."''
447The manager of [=MandelaTECH=], who aids Thatcher Davis in his investigations of the Alternates and the Intruder by recovering damaged VHS tapes for Thatcher to see. Due to his knowledges as a technician, he also creates computer programs said to be revolutionary, such in the case as "Face Studio". Unknown to him, however, he is being a pawn for a being beyond this comprehension or [[FlatEarthAtheist beliefs]].
448----
449* AdaptationalHeroism: The Dave Lee we see in the non-canon promo doesn't do anything remotely heroic and is quickly killed by the Intruder for his utter incompetence (a ''plushie version'' of him nonetheless). In Volume 333 however, he aids Thatcher Davis in his investigation of the Intruder and manages to recover two minutes of ''The Might of the Subconscious'' from the Murrays' television and even tells Davis that he's ready to help him more in his investigation. When he comes face-to-face with [[{{Satan}} the Unspeakable]], he tells him that he's [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu not real]] and defiantly says that Satan cannot accomplish anything before getting his eyes gouged out.
450* AdaptationalIntelligence: The non-canon Dave Lee doesn't seem to have a clue on what to do when encountering an Alternate and tells his "tech geeks" that an appearance by the Intruder is just a "[[BlatantLies really unique defect]]" that can be immediately fixed by unplugging the TV and plugging it back in. His canon appearance in Volume 333 however reveals that he is aware of Thatcher's investigation into the Intruder (and by extension the rest of the Alternates) and shows ''actual'' technical expertise when he recovers two whole minutes of ''The Might of the Subconscious'' from one of the tapes that Davis sent to him.
451* AscendedExtra: Begnning as a CanonImmigrant from the Makeship plush promos, to being a background character in ''Vol. 333'', to becoming one of the protagonists in ''Vol. 4''.
452* AmbiguouslyRelated: He is identical in appearance to Mark save for his moustache and hair, raising the question if they're related in some way.
453* AuthorAvatar: Another character portrayed by Alex Kister.
454* CallBack:
455** His death by having his eyes gouged out by Gabriel is heavily reminiscent of Mark's last words, "my eyes are wide open."
456** Overall, the scene leading to his death scene is a clear parallel to Noah's final encounter with Gabriel in ''Exhibition''. First of all, both men are older than the rest of the cast up to that point, and both are referred to as prophets. When Gabriel descends from the skies, both come to this realization by slowly turning and looking up to the sky, in Dave's case with a shot near identical to Noah in Exhibition. From then, both are told that they will be punished for not following his every word, followed by their deaths.
457* CanonImmigrant: Originally presented as an non-canon character for the Makeship Intruder Plush Promo before becoming an actual character in the series proper.
458* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Dave dies after getting his eyes melted by Gabriel. If that wasn't bad enough, ''mandela catalyst'' reveals that he also did ''[[NothingIsScarier something]]'' to Dave's brain. Whatever it was isn't clear, but the nurses at the Bythorne Hospital were pretty spooked ([[invoked]]WordOfGod in the Discord server states that Gabriel made Dave's brain ''explode'').
459-->'''Nurse #1:''' Oh, Jesus... \
460'''Nurse #2:''' What? \
461'''Nurse #1:''' Come here, look. \
462'''Nurse #2:''' Oh my god! \
463'''Nurse #1:''' Yeah. Brain's not supposed to do that.
464* DavidVersusGoliath: Much like Thatcher Davis, he is confronted with an immensely powerful alternate (in this case, it's {{Satan}}) and defies said Alternate. Unlike Davis however, Dave is not so lucky and ends up having [[EyeScream his eyes gouged out]].
465* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: The man looks at Satan himself straight to the eye and tells him "he's not real" and that he won't accomplish anything. Normally, such bold fearlessness is the perfect means to repel an Alternate, as Thatcher proved. However Gabriel, obviously, is no mere Alternate. So this, of course, accomplishes nothing and leads to his death.
466* EyeScream: Killed by the Unspeakable by ''popping out his eyes''. We only get to see the aftermath; Dave lying on the floor, dying from blood loss.
467* FlatEarthAtheist: Says in ''Vol. 4'' that he's "not a man of god", implying that he's an atheist. Even when face-to-face with {{Satan}} himself, he tells him that he's "not real".
468* MeaningfulName: Similar to Mr. Davis, Dave may have been named after the Biblical David as well. This is amplified by his death, which comes from facing the Alternate Gabriel himself, essentially falling to the "Goliath" of alternates. The Alternate Gabriel even calls him "David".
469* {{Retirony}}: Gets killed by Gabriel not too long after disbanding [=MandelaTECH=] and having cut his ties with Thatcher.
470* SunglassesAtNight: Is never seen without wearing sunglasses, even after his [[EyeScream eyes are gouged out]].
471* UnwittingPawn: Is revealed to be this by none other than Gabriel himself. In his efforts to aid Thatcher in his investigation, he gave the Alternates everything they wanted; the altered tapes are now fully repaired and readily viewable to anyone, and with Face Studio 2, he's given them the perfect tool they need to copy any face they could ever want and create Tulpas with ease. Though he ultimately stops just short of...whatever his final purpose was for them, he had done enough for them to continue off of. Which led to...
472* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: All but outright declared by Gabriel himself, as he says that Dave had already done all his bidding for him right before seemingly killing him.
473----
474[[/folder]]
475
476[[folder:Adam's Online Friends]]
477In Volume 4, we are shown Adam's private messages in some sort of social media. Among these, we are able to see names of characters that are likely yet to be introduced properly.
478----
479* AtrociousAlias: One of Adam's friends has the username [=xXxNOAHxXx=], an obvious pastiche of "edgy" usernames from the older days of the internet.
480* {{Foreshadowing}}: It's hard to spot, but Adam's last message to Tyler Johnson is him asking what "fs2" is. Later in the episode, we're shown the existence of Face Studio 2, likely what Tyler was referring to.
481* TheGhost: Naturally, we never see any of them.
482* MeaningfulName: Some of them seem to be named after biblical figures, much like the main cast, such is the case of [[XtremeKoolLetterz xXxNoahxXx]] and Tyler '''John'''son.
483* NoodleIncident: Amanda's last message to Adam is nothing but insults, saying that Adam will get what's coming for him. We are never shown what Adam did to Amanda, raising some questions. According to Evelin in ''Presto'', Amanda had also tried ''warning'' Evelin about being in a relationship with Adam, suggesting she knew Adam before Evelin met him, either as a friend or possible ex-girlfriend.
484[[/folder]]
485
486!The Alternates
487
488[[folder:As a whole]]
489[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_mandela_catalogue_vol_1_0_38_screenshot.png]]
490[[caption-width-right:350:If you see a person that has a biologically impossible characteristic, run away and hide.]]
491->"In the event of an Alternate encounter, follow the T.H.I.N.K. principle."
492The antagonistic force of the series, shapeshifting demons who can imitate just about any lifeform and seek to kill their victims via proxy by driving them to suicide, typically through prolonged torture. They are alluded to be a temporal anomaly of some sorts.
493----
494* AllLowercaseLetters: In the [[FunWithSubtitles closed captions]], all of their dialogue is in this format, save for Alternate Gabriel's and Stanley's.
495* AlwaysChaoticEvil: None of them are shown to have ''any'' redeemable qualities whatsoever. This comes with being demons created by Satan. Showcased in Volume 4, where a multi-armed Alternate (or a whole horde of them) is attracted to the sounds of people suffering.
496* BrownNoteBeing: It is stated by the Department of Temporal Phenomena that direct contact of any kind will lead to developing M.A.D.
497* ColdBloodedTorture: Of the psychological type, in hopes to cause their victim to [[DrivenToSuicide commit suicide]].
498* DarkIsEvil: [[invoked]]WordOfGod states that upon first entry, all Alternates are humanoid pitch black figures until they shapeshift.
499* {{Expy}}: [[invoked]]WordOfGod states that the main inspiration for the Alternates as a whole are the Woodcrawlers from ''WebVideo/GeminiHomeEntertainment''.
500* {{Flight}}: It's implied that they have this ability at some capacity. In ''The THINK Principle'', you can see that among the "biologically impossible characteristics" listed there's an Alternate being upside down, and in ''Volume 333'' you can see Thatcher's Follower revealing itself to Thatcher by slowly descending from the ceiling in a puppet-like fashion.
501* HiveMind: If Makeship's Gabriel Vinyl Figure's description is any indication, the Alternates are part of a Hivemind led by Satan himself.
502** Although not outright stated to exist in the mainstream series, implications of an Alternate Hivemind were already being given out as soon as Volume 1, more specifically in the 911 operator section which tells the viewer to not talk too much to a victim reporting an Alternate encounter, saying that they might accidentally reveal their fear and therefore "uploading" it to the Hivemind.
503** Then there's the 333 Alternate, who repeats ArcWords from Volume 1 such as "uh oh, bad decision!" and "there's not enough room for the both of us" while not even being brought onto existence after these phrases were originally said. It also seems to mimic 3 separate victims of the Intruder, implying that he is also connected to the Hivemind in some level.
504* HumanoidAbomination: While some can disguise themselves better than others, their monstrous true nature always bleeds through the facade, ranging from simple, almost mundane-seeming oddities in their appearance to a distorted parody of the human form. Then there’s their ShapeshifterDefaultForm, which is a humanoid mass of darkness.
505* InvincibleVillain: So far, nothing has been shown to hinder them in the slightest. Not even hot lead, which Mark and Davis learn the hard way. If they ''do'' have a weakness, then the Intruder will make sure that information doesn't go far.
506* {{Leitmotif}}: A lot of Alternates tend to make their appearance accompanied with a distorted song playing in the background. This includes Gabriel and the Intruder, even if the latter is not an Alternate himself. [[https://youtu.be/KLjvfqnD0ws Ave Maria]] seems to be the most recurring, being heard on at least 3 occasions throughout the series.
507* MindRape: Their type of psychological torture is implied to be this, as it can spread a mental disorder known as "[[FunWithAcronyms M.A.D.]]", which has a 97% chance to drive the affected to suicide.
508* NotUsingTheZWord: Despite being implied to be demons, none of the characters refer to them as such at any given point.
509* NighInvulnerability: DoubleSubverted. The USDTP implied that Alternates were able to be killed via weapons in ''Volume 1'', ''Volume 333'' however repeatedly showcases that shooting an Alternate will, at most, stall it for just a bit. Cesar's Alternate wasn't affected after being shot repeatedly with a Desert Eagle, and Thatcher's Follower merely flinched after being hit by a bullet to the head.
510* OurDemonsAreDifferent: They're all but stated to be demons, being creatures with uncertain origins that cause psychological and (at some unknown extent) physical damage. By the end of Exhibition, it's heavily implied that they were created by Satan himself.
511* SpellMyNameWithAThe: Every major Alternate is referred to at one point with a title starting with "The." '''The''' Antichrist[[note]]Name which Alex Kister repeatedly used to refer to Gabriel[[/note]]/[[invoked]][[FanNickname False Shepherd]], '''The''' Intruder, '''The''' Alternate[[note]]Name given to the 333 Alternate in the credits[[/note]], '''The''' Perpetrator[[note]]Name given to Cesar's Alternate in the mandelapolice ARG[[/note]], '''The''' Jester, and so on.
512* TheyLookLikeUsNow: Most of the Alternates look, or at least try in some cases, to blend in with their environment, whether it be as humans, inside mirrors or as objects.
513* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Alternates can mimic absolutely anything they see right down to the tiniest scratch, though the results aren't always flawless, as with the Type 3 Alternates.
514----
515[[/folder]]
516
517[[folder:Type 1: Doppelgangers]]
518!!Type 1: Doppelgangers
519[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tmc_type_1.png]]
520[[caption-width-right:350:The first example of the Type 1 Alternates, seen in The T.H.I.N.K Principle.]]
521->"Unidentifiable by the naked eye."
522The most common type of Alternates, shapeshifters who copy other human's appearance and voice, to very close results.
523----
524* KillAndReplace: Due to being the only Alternates with the ability to mimic the human body without any major flaw, most of them so far seem to use this as their modus operandi.
525* MeaningfulName: In general culture, Doppelgangers are known as "an apparition or double of a living person." Similar to what they're doing, minus the [[DeadPersonImpersonation living part]].
526* SpottingTheThread: They at first look exactly like the humans they copy, but upon having a closer look at them.... you'll realize that something is wrong, like a longer neck or shorter height.
527----
528[[/folder]]
529
530[[folder:Type 2: Detectable/Unspeakable]]
531!!Type 2: Detectable (Later known as the Unspeakable)
532->"The name that shall not be named."
533See "The Archangel Gabriel".
534[[/folder]]
535
536[[folder:Type 3: Flawed Impersonators]]
537!!Type 3: Flawed Impersonators
538[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tmc_type_3_3.png]]
539[[caption-width-right:350:The second example of Type 3 Alternates, seen in The T.H.I.N.K Principle.]]
540->"Doppelgangers that have not completed the process/process interruption."
541Doppelgangers whose process of shifting has been interrupted or left uncompleted, causing their human disguises to distort in horrifying ways.
542----
543* TheBlank: Some of them ''lack facial features entirely''.
544* BodyHorror: Due to their transformation being interrupted, their bodies have been deformed in such a way they don't even look human anymore. On top of their FacialHorror, their bodies can end up stretched out and mangled or have grossly inhuman proportions, if their representation in the THINK Principle is anything to go by.
545* GlamourFailure: Their deformations range from removing [[TheBlank every facial feature]] to [[DarkIsEvil a pitch black face with no facial features but eyes.]]
546* ObviouslyEvil: Unlike the Doppelgangers, you can obviously tell these guys ''do not'' mean well.
547----
548[[/folder]]
549
550[[folder:Type 4: Tulpas]]
551!!Type 4: Tulpas
552->"Most recent threat."
553The fourth type of Alternates, seemingly created by children's imagination through a television show called ''The Might of the Subconscious''. They can supposedly appear on mirrors, as hinted by the community post that first revealed them.
554----
555* MeaningfulName: In Theosophy, [[{{Tulpa}} Tulpas]] are {{Imaginary Friend}}s who are willed into having sentience and independence from their creator. In Volume 333, it's heavily implied that this is what causes them to exist.
556* MirrorMonster: They can presumably appear on mirrors.
557* YourMindMakesItReal: They are implied to be children's imaginary friends brought to life.
558----
559[[/folder]]
560
561!!Specific Alternates
562[[folder:"The Archangel Gabriel"]]
563!!"Gabriel"/Satan/ "O'Brien"
564[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gabriel_overthrone.png]]
565[[caption-width-right:350:''"can't [[{{God}} you]] see? [[TheBadGuyWins i decieved them]]. [[BadassBoast such weak minds]]."'']]
566[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to view "Gabriel's" appearance in ''Exhibition'']]\
567 https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gabriel_exhibition.png ''"you won't even realize that it had taken form until you see it. when you see it, there is no return. it will give you a message. it will be your [[DeadlyEuphemism last message]]."'' [[/labelnote]]]]
568-->'''Portrayed By: [[https://fasthub.net/ A whisper text-to-speech program]] (Overthrone-Exhibition)[[note]]Though you can hear it muffled under Kyle's voice in Volume 4[[/note]], Kyle "[=ItsameWario=]" [=DeNigris=] (Volume 4 onwards)'''
569->''"[[BlatantLies i am your true savior]]. i know everything about what makes you human. i know what you love. i know what you dread."''
570The Detectable. [[TheDreaded The Unspeakable.]] A mysterious figure first seen in "Overthrone" that presents itself as the ArchangelGabriel, but seems quite a bit off. In truth, this figure is none other than the Devil himself, who managed to replace the Archangel Gabriel during the birth of Jesus and convince people that he's the "true savior," allowing him to conquer Earth within the following millennia. He is single-handedly responsible for the Alternates managing to get onto Noah's Ark and spreading across the world, resulting in the Alternate Crisis.
571----
572* AdaptationalBadass: Biblical Satan failed in both [[TheStarscream overthrowing God]] and tempting Jesus with power, and was eventually thrown into Hell as a result. Mandela Catalogue's Satan however, managed to defeat and impersonate the Archangel Gabriel and take his place, release his demons to drive humans to suicide and turn himself into the de facto ruler of Earth.
573* AllYourPowersCombined: So far, he has shown abilities from three of other four Alternate types, these being the Doppelganger's ability to shapeshift into semi-identical versions of their victims, being able to shapeshift into their "[[FacialHorror flawed]]" state at will. It's also implied that he has the ability to tamper with the PSA tapes, likewise to the Intruder.
574* TheBadGuyWins: He’s [[VillainWorld already won]], effectively, having come out on top in the conflicts that the Biblical Satan failed in and ended up winning much, much more after that. By the modern age, humanity is constantly suffering under the spread of evil and his Alternates.
575* BigBad: He's the main antagonist of the Biblical times setting, and overarching antagonist of the series in general; The entire plot was set up as a result of him replacing Gabriel and causing himself to be worshiped by humanity and then unleashing Alternates in order to ravage mankind.
576* BrokenRecord: When he's speaking to a sleeping Joseph in Overthrone:
577-->''"wake up, joseph. '''wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up'''"''
578* TheCameo: His post-''Exhibition'' Act 1 appearances have him appear only briefly.
579** He is seen as a green serpent in ''Vol. 2'' and is shown to be responsible for the Original Sin.
580** Appears at the very end of ''Vol. 333'' next to a statue of Jesus and Simon Of Cyrene, still sporting the PsychoticSmirk he had in ''Exhibtion''.
581* {{CAPSLOCK}}: The text he uses to monologue at the end of Overthrone is a [[ColorCodedSpeech red text in all caps]]. And again at the end of Vol.4.
582* ContractualBossImmunity: The leader of the Alternates, and a being of incredible power, the latter being unsurprising, as incredible power comes with the territory of being ''{{Satan}}''. And when Dave Lee faces him, he proves to not have the, so far, only true weakness of the Alternates. Thatcher proved that complete fearlessness in the face of an Alternate makes them incapable of affecting you, and forces them to leave you. Dave Lee looks ''the literal Devil'' in his eyes, and says right to his face that ''[[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu he's not real and he won't accomplish anything.]]'' Gabriel, in response, ''[[NoSell laughs in his face]]'' and kills him ''directly'' rather than indirectly, further cementing him as something on a ''much different level'' than his minions.
583* DarkIsEvil: His second appearance has him completely covered in darkness and he's literally the [[{{Satan}} embodiment of evil]] who is responsible for the current Alternate crisis.
584* DemiurgeArchetype: A case where the Demiurge is {{Satan}}, who somehow [[KillAndReplace killed and replaced]] the ArchangelGabriel, then overthrew Jesus himself. Posing as the both of them and as God, he tricks humanity into worshipping him instead of the true god, describing himself as the "one true savior". He also unleashes Alternates, demon doppelgΓ€ngers of human beings, onto the world to destroy humanity via a mass KillAndReplace in order to ensure his goal of global conquest goes unchallenged, furthering the themes of illusion, deceit, and impersonation.
585* DevilInDisguise: Throughout the videos, it becomes clearer and clearer that "Gabriel" is none other than Satan himself. Starting from vague hidden captions in the first couple of episodes referencing the Devil to straight up being implied to be the Serpent of Eden in the latest of episodes.
586* DivinelyAppearingDemons: Having stolen the identity of the Archangel Gabriel, Satan uses his face and likeness to deceive various biblical figures and prophets in the Biblical Times sections. {{Subverted|Trope}} in the Modern Times, where he stopped giving a care about his disguise a long time ago and deforms it into monstruous proportions.
587* TheDogWasTheMastermind: O'Brien, the man with the southern accent talking to Dave Lee about a job offer on the Church at the very beginning of ''Volume 4''? Yep. That was Gabriel all along.
588* TheDreaded: {{Implied|Trope}} to be this by the Department of Temporal Phenomena. In his description, his name is described as the one that [[SpeakOfTheDevil shall not be named]].
589* EvilGloating: ''Can't you see ? I've deceived them. Such weak minds'' said by Satan to presumably God.
590* EvilLaugh: Gives one right before Dave Lee's death.
591* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Taken to its LogicalExtreme. Satan may take on the form of the Archangel Gabriel, but he's still the Devil, and has no qualms with destroying humanity.
592* FauxAffablyEvil: As the Archangel Gabriel Satan is very charismatic and reassuring proclaming himself the "true savior" but it's actually just manipulation.
593* FalseProphet: He proclaims himself to be the "true savior" of humanity to Mary and the Shepherds.
594* ForDoomTheBellTolls: His appearance to Noah in ''Exhibition'' is heralded by the cacophonous sound of church bells overlaid with [[FreezeFrameBonus brief flashes]] of his actions in ''Overthrone''. They get louder and louder as "Gabriel" comes closer to Noah.
595* GlamourFailure: His disguise is perfectly identical to the actual Archangel Gabriel, save for the small detail that he ''[[FallenAngel doesn't have wings]]''. Not bothering with the disguise anymore when his work is done, he apparently lets loose his FacialHorror before the shepherds.
596* GrayscaleOfEvil: Every time he approaches the scene, the screen turns completely grey.
597* GreaterScopeVillain: As expected of the embodiment of evil, the entire tragedy behind the Alternates plaguing humanity was started by him, he's changed world history for the worse by subverting divine will and becoming the ruler of Earth, and is about the most powerful and dreaded entity the series has to offer. In the modern times however, he's either dormant or absent from the main events, with other Alternates, namely the Intruder, leading most of the carnage instead.
598* HeroKiller: Going off his actions, he's managed to dispose of Archangel Gabriel, deceived Adam and Eve into commiting the first sin, afflicted and doomed Noah with M.A.D after forcing him to help spread the Alternates across Earth, [[AmbiguousSituation possibly]] forced Jesus Christ into damnation and flat out subverted God's will in general, with any acts He could have done to curb Satan being nonexistent even in the modern age. His first onscreen kill comes in Vol.4, where he's implied to have [[EyeScream gouged Dave Lee's eyes out.]]
599* HiveKing: His Makeship Vinyl Figure's description describes him as the "leader of the HiveMind that doomed Mandela County from the start."
600* IKnowWhatYouFear: Says to the Shepherds that he knows what they fear.
601-->"i know what you love. i know what you dread."
602* ImpliedDeathThreat: Delivers one to Noah once he fails to comply with his demands, saying that he will receive his "last message" from what's presumably an Alternate.
603* KarmaHoudini: He succeeds in his plan to take over the Earth with his Alternates and sabotaging the Annunciation and he will probably never be defeated.
604* LightIsNotGood: He wears the same white robes as Gabriel, except this time he is the false shepherd to others.
605* MonsterProgenitor: To the Alternates. He knows exactly how they work, and describes that a "change" will happen to Noah's mind once he encounters the Alternate he infiltrated in the Ark, a change that sounds suspiciously similar to M.A.D.
606* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: By 2005, he is known by the Department of Temporal Phenomena as the "Unspeakable" for [[SpeakOfTheDevil obvious reasons]].
607* NightmareFace: His contorted smiling face as Gabriel.
608* NonStandardCharacterDesign: In the cartoony representation of the Biblical times, he stands out by being the only character represented in a realistic portrait. This is subverted in the Volume 2 flashback to the creation of Original Sin, where he's represented as an animated serpent, and Double Subverted in the Volume 4 flashback, where he's depicted as his usual statue self once again.
609* PerpetualSmiler: PlayedForHorror. In all of his appearances, "Gabriel" has either [[SlasherSmile a malevolent, ear-to-ear smile]] or [[PsychoticSmirk an arrogant, yet vicious smirk]].
610* PsychoticSmirk: Before he donned his deformed and inhumane smile, he smirked. Just ask Noah.
611* RuleOfSymbolism: Unlike the rest of the Alternates, who can't seem to be perfectly capable of replicate human faces, Satan is perfectly capable of copying someone down to the last detail. Though, his "Gabriel" disguise seems to have one major flaw that sets him apart from the real deal: He doesn't have wings, referencing him being a FallenAngel.
612* {{Sadist}}: He smiles wickedly while watching humanity being doomed after he replaces Jesus and laughs maniacally after killing Dave Lee.
613* SingleSpecimenSpecies: In the 2005 document, "Unspeakable" is in singular, implying that as far as the Department knows, he's the only Alternate of his kind.
614* SlasherSmile: He has the ability to heavily contort his face at will, as shown in the page image.
615* SoftSpokenSadist: Combined with {{Creepy Monotone}}. In every single appearance he makes after his role is revealed, he speaks with a [[ExaggeratedTrope barely audible whisper]] to his victim(s). This is dropped in Vol. 4, where when he is finally voiced, he's prone to [[ColdHam a more theatrical pattern of speech]] and [[LaughingMad maniacal laughter]].
616* SpeakOfTheDevil: The implied reason of why he was [[MeaningfulRename renamed from the "Detectable" to the "Unspeakable"]] in the Department of Temporal Phenomena's files.
617* SyntheticVoiceActor: Until Vol. 4, the only time his voice has been heard has been in the form of a frightening, harsh and primitive text-to-speech programming. And when he finally ''does'' have a voice, that synthetic voice remains in the background of his speech.
618* WalkingSpoiler: It's basically impossible to talk about him without revealing that he's actually Satan in disguise and conquered the entire world thousands of years ago.
619* WouldHarmASenior: Implied to have had an Alternate give the 600-year old Biblical Noah M.A.D. as punishment for building the Ark.
620----
621[[/folder]]
622
623[[folder:N]]
624!!N
625[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_letter_n.jpg]]
626A flawed impersonator whose disguise has been reduced to nothing but pitch darkness with two eyes. [[ShapeShifterDefaultForm Although it would be more accurate to say he has no disguise at all.]]
627----
628* AllThereInTheManual: Likewise to the Intruder, his name is never outright stated in the series and was instead revealed via Twitter.
629** His appearance not simply being a flawed disguise, but [[ShapeShifterDefaultForm a lack thereof]], was only revealed on Alex's [[https://twitter.com/alexkisterr/status/1459391779669749762?s=20&t=F5Wn3fVlYzJ7Qy1p0Tj6NQ Twitter.]]
630* BodyHorror: Manages to outdo the other flawed impersonators seen by a '''wide''' margin. His "body", if you can even call it that, is nothing but pitch black darkness and the only human feature he has are two eyes.
631* TheCameo: He briefly appears in the Intruder's screen while he shows Adam the events of Mandela County from Volume 1.
632* DarkIsEvil: A pitch dark Alternate, clearly not the best of combinations.
633* EmergingFromTheShadows: Camouflaging in the shadows appears to be his way of attacking.
634* LivingShadow: His body almost seems 2 dimensional, giving this effect.
635* ShapeShifterDefaultForm: According to [[invoked]]WordOfGod, N's general appearance is what ''all'' Alternates look like in their natural state.
636* TheSpook: He's largely absent from the series save for being used as an example of a flawed disguise, with similar looking black figures with beady white eyes appearing in televisions and windows that may-or-may-not be him (and could also be the Intruder) appearing in other installments.
637* WhamShot: The end of ''The Think Principle'' shows a bedroom covered in darkness...before the lights flicker on to reveal N staring at the camera.
638----
639[[/folder]]
640
641[[folder:Cesar's Alternate]]
642!!Cesar's Alternate
643[[quoteright:181:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/among_us_is_gone_finally.png]]
644[[caption-width-right:181:i have a gift for you! i have a surprise!]]
645[[quoteright:181:[[labelnote: Click here to see him in ''Volume 1'']]\
646https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sus_cesar.png]][[/labelnote]]
647-->'''Portrayed by: Andrew Long (Phone Call), Michelle Strohwig'''
648->''"One last thing, try to get a good view of the back hallway."''
649An alternate who has taken the form of Cesar in order to lure Mark into his house and follow him.
650----
651* AdaptationalLateAppearance: In the original ''Vol. 1'' and in the mandelapolice.com ARG, it's implied that he cornered Mark in his room immediately after he went to Cesar's house. In the Remake, he has to break into Cesar's house again to check if Mark was still there, and when he realizes that Mark had already left, it takes him a whole day to corner him in his room.
652* TheCameo: Appears as a silhouette with only his eyes visible on the Intruder's TV in Volume 2, and his WantedPoster briefly appears during one of the transitions in Volume 333.
653* ClockKing: PlayedForHorror. He mimics the voice of what appears to be a TV announcer talking about the time while tormenting Mark.
654-->''"What time is it? It's just after eight."''
655* DeathGlare: As soon as Mark shoots him, he rushes towards Mark and gives him a frightening stare. Which prompts Mark to [[DrivenToSuicide shoot himself]].
656* DissonantSerenity: One of the main hints that he's an alternate is how ''calm'' he sounds after his mother got sent to the ER.
657* ElectronicSpeechImpediment: Suffers from this when he speaks to Mark outside his door.
658* EvilLaugh: He laughs for a prolonged period prior to Mark's death.
659* FaceFramedInShadow: In Volume 333, the evidence gathered by Lt. Thatcher's police investigation into Mark's death includes a mugshot of Cesar's Alternate, with half of his face being obscured by pitch black shadows.
660* HeroKiller: Forces Mark to kill himself after tormenting him outside of his room for several days.
661* ImmuneToBullets: {{Implied|Trope}}. There's many empty bullet casings on Mark's bed after Thatcher finds his body in Volume 333. Futhermore, Mark lets out a BattleCry after opening the door, indicating he at least planned on fighting at first.
662* PreMortemOneLiner: "uh oh! bad decision, mark!"
663* SlasherSmile: Is shown to sport a wide-faced grin when the video distorts.
664* SpeakIllOfTheDead: He mocks Mark's suicide, saying it was the ''"wrong decision"'' to make.
665* TranquilFury: Implied by the tone of his voice when he speaks to Mark in Volume 333, seemingly starting to lose his patience.
666-->''"You need to open the door, NOW. I am not going away..."''
667----
668[[/folder]]
669
670[[folder:"Woman"]]
671!!"Woman"
672-->'''Portrayed by: [[https://twitter.com/valentinegrrrl_ Faith Cunningham]]'''
673->''"i still hear the meows of my old cat, jonny, but the little guy passed away a few years ago."''
674An Alternate posing as a lady in order to lure the BPS in her house by presenting them a paranormal case involving the meows of her recently deceased cat.
675----
676* AmbiguousSituation:
677** Given that the location of Volume 2 is heavily implied to be Cesar Torres' house, and that she shares voice with Cesar's mother, fans speculate that she might be Cesar's Alternate from Volume 1 taking her form.
678** Faith Cunningham also had The Preacher as her profile picture, which may imply that "Woman" and the Preacher are one and the same. Or at least they are in her own [[invoked]][[WordOfSaintPaul headcanon]].
679* CallBack: The method she uses to lure the BPS into her house is similar to the one Cesar's Alternate used to lure Mark.
680* DeadAllAlong: Heavily implied to have been an Alternate in disguise.
681* NoNameGiven: She's credited as simply "Woman".
682----
683[[/folder]]
684
685[[folder:"The Preacher"]]
686!!"The Preacher" / "A Messenger"
687[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/is_he_a_spoon_a_man_or_a_demn.jpg]]
688[[quoteright:350:[[labelnote:Click here to view The Preacher's appearance in ''Interlude'']]\
689https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nun_messenger.png Overdriven Assimilation [[/labelnote]]]]
690%%->''"[[JumpScare OPEN YOUR EYES.]]"''
691The Alternate who was sleeping inside Cesar's house in Volume 2, seemingly summoned by the Intruder. Not much is known about it until the release of Interlude, where the Preacher is shown to be a new type of Alternate with an "overdriven assimilation", causing it to be a grotesque and malformed copy of a nun.
692----
693* AllThereInTheManual: Following the trend of Alternates going unnamed in the actual series and being named in [[invoked]]WordOfGod statements, its name, or at least a nickname to refer to it, was revealed in a poster posted in Alex's Twitter.
694* TheBusCameBack: After not being seen since ''Vol 2'', the Preacher returns in ''Interlude''.
695* ConnectedAllAlong: In ''Volume 4'', a picture of her shows up after the Intruder mentions Adam's "monsters in the bedroom", implying that she was one, if not all of them.
696* GhostlyGape: Has wide, dark eyes and an open mouth looking almost like it's screaming.
697* TheGrotesque: Unlike a typical Type 3, which is a flawed assimilation of a human, causing it to be missing parts of a body, the Preacher is an overdriven assimilation, causing human features to be present, but greatly exaggerated and disproportionate as to still appear inhuman.
698* MrExposition: During its jumpscare, a hidden message shows in the captions informing the viewer about M.A.D. symptoms.
699* NunsAreSpooky: It's an Alternate mimicking a nun.
700* TheUnintelligible: Although many attempts have been made by the fandom, its whispers don't seem to say anything understandable, unlike Gabriel's.
701* TrespassingToTalk: Effectively what it did -- It was outside the house until after the Intruder threatens Adam. Unless, of course, you consider the Intruder to be the owner of the house. Then technically it was invited.
702----
703[[/folder]]
704
705[[folder:Thatcher's Follower]]
706!!Thatcher's Follower[[labelnote:Note]]Supplementary name. Will change if an official one is provided.[[/labelnote]]
707[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2022_06_04_at_15516_pm.png]]
708[[caption-width-right:350:i wanna play with [[ArcVillain the man in the tv!]]]]
709[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see him copying Thatcher in ''Vol 4'']]\
710https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thatchers_alternate_3.png ''"[[BlatantLies everything's clear here at the station.]]"''[[/labelnote]]]]
711-->'''Portrayed by: Thorne Baker''' (Vol.4)
712->''"This is Lieutenant Thatcher Davis. Seems like I made a mistake. Everything's clear here at the station. Calling off all units. Over."''
713An Alternate with the appearance of a malnourished giant with loose skin. Throughout ''Volume 333'' it stalks and eventually attempts to murder Thatcher Davis. After Thatcher manages to escape it in ''Vol. 4'', it takes on his form and continues to psychologically torture him.
714----
715* AmbiguousSituation: At a glance, it appears to be a Type 3 whose disguise has seemingly extended more than intended. However, Stanley's TV show about [[YourMindMakesItReal bringing]] {{Imaginary Friend}}s [[{{Tulpa}} to life]] being part of the "Murray v. [???] Altercation Reel", Stanley saying "your new friend is somewhere in your house" and the Alternate first being seen in the Murrays' house, the TV show's piano theme playing when it stretches its face, and it talking in a childish voice about friends, all seem to imply that it's a Type 4 created by Lynn and Jude Murray's child.
716* CallBack: Delivers two previously seen lines to Thatcher before attacking him, "uh oh! bad decision, thatcher!" (seen before in ''Vol. 1'' when it was directed at Mark) and "THERE IS NOT ENOUGH ROOM FOR THE TWO OF US LIEUTENANT" (seen before in ''The THINK Principle'', not directed at anyone in particular). The full implications of this are unknown.
717* EvilLaugh: Lets one out after stretching its face into a smile.
718* HeroKiller: It's heavily implied it murdered both Thatcher Davis and Ruth Weaver in ''Vol 333'', though [[SubvertedTrope Thatcher is shown to have survived in a later video]], leaving Ruth's fate ambiguous. Confirmed in Vol.4 to have killed Ruth.
719* HumanoidAbomination: More-so than most Alternates, who either largely have a resemblance to humans or have utterly inhuman features. This one has a malnourished looked to it and it can also ''stretch its face'' to form a deranged smile. The Alternate's new "Thatcher form" is just as horrific; it takes his basic look, but its flesh, eyes, and mouth are loose and twitchy, and its left eye is blind.
720* ImmuneToBullets: Being shot in the head only stuns it for a few seconds.
721* KickTheDog: Though it fails to make Thatcher afraid of it, and fails to make him commit suicide, thus forcing it to leave him alone, it still takes the time to give the Lieutenant one last parting twisting of the knife; implications being for no reason other than [[EvilIsPetty sheer pettiness]] at being bested. Taunting his uselessness and comparing him to Mark Heathcliff, who killed himself, implicitly suggesting he should [[SuicideDare go the same route]].
722* {{Leitmotif}}: It is associated with the classic Christian hymn "Amazing Grace". It is introduced singing the first two stanzas, and its arrival at the Mandela County Police Station is heralded by a heavily distorted recording of the hymn.
723* MarionetteMotion: It floats and moves around like a puppet on strings. Curiously enough, the pose that it takes while doing this resembles Jesus' during his crucifixion.
724* MirrorCharacter: To the giant Goliath.
725* NoNameGiven: It's not given any kind of name in the credits besides "Alternate".
726* NothingButSkinAndBones: The Alternate's form is twisted in such a way that its body resembles that of a malnourished human.
727* PremortemOneLiner: "uh oh! bad decision, thatcher!"
728* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: After stealing Thatcher's face, voice, and (most of) his life, the Alternate Thatcher calls him a hopeless man with no place in the world, comparing him to a scared little boy with a gun.
729-->'''Thatcher's voice:''' ''"Afraid of your own reflection, lieutenant? Dead or alive... you're no use to these people. A man without a purpose... in a world that doesn't need him. A scared boy with a gun. Sound familiar?"''
730* ShapeshifterGuiltTrip: Uses the voices of Cesar, Ruth, and Mark to both scare and mock Thatcher.
731-->'''Cesar's voice:''' ''"[[YouAreTooLate You're too late.]]"''\
732'''Ruth's voice:''' ''"You left me behind."''\
733'''Mark's voice:''' ''"This town is in shambles because of you."''
734* ShoutOut: Its appearance heavily resembles [[Website/SCPFoundation SCP-096]].
735* SlasherSmile: It uses its [[FingerForcedSmile own fingers to force its face's loose skin to smile]] before attempting to kill Thatcher. It retains a sadistically joyous smile, even when impersonating Thatcher.
736* SoftSpokenSadist: In the same vein as the Intruder, Thatcher's Follower taunts Thatcher by laying his impotence bare, comparing him to "a scared boy with a gun" without ever raising its voice.
737* TwistingTheWords: Implied to be doing this with the two children's dialogue it's mimicking.
738-->'''Unknown boy's voice:''' ''"Mommy, wanna meet my best friend? He likes to hide, but-"''\
739'''Unknown girl's voice:''' ''"-he wants to meet you! I wanna play with-"''\
740'''Unknown boy's voice:''' ''"-the man in the TV!"''
741* WhamShot: At the end of ''Vol 333'', this is the first Alternate who we get to see ''move'' on-camera.
742* WhatTheHellHero: It blames Thatcher for the current state of Mandela County and leaving Ruth behind.
743----
744[[/folder]]
745
746!!Allies of the Alternates
747[[folder:The Intruder/"Stanley"]]
748!!The Intruder/Stanley/6
749[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/this_intruder_is_messed_up_bruh.png]]
750[[caption-width-right:350:''Do you remember that night, Murray?'']]
751[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to view The Intruder's appearance in ''Intruder Alert'']]\
752 https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/intruder_0.png I am inside your home. [[/labelnote]]]]
753[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to view The Intruder's appearance in ''Volume 1'']]\
754 https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/inside_your_house_8.png Him. [[/labelnote]]]]
755[[quoteright:350:[[labelnote:Click here to view Stanley]]\
756https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/stanleyparablebutepic.png ''[[{{Tulpa}} Your new friend]] [[NotSoImaginaryFriend is somewhere in your house.]]'' [[/labelnote]]]]
757-->'''Portrayed by: [[https://fasthub.net/ A whisper text-to-speech program]] (Intruder Alert-Volume 2), Michelle Strohwig (Spirit Box), Leon Rodriguez (Volume 333 onwards)'''
758->''"Nobody is coming to help you. Nobody knows where you are. Nobody knows. '''[[ImpliedDeathThreat Do you understand?]]'''"''
759A strange entity that Mark Heathcliff first encountered as a child. He has apparently tormented Mark on-and-off ever since, going as far as temporarily altering the United States Department of Temporal Phenomena's logo to announce his death, which possibly made his presence known to the Department. He has the ability to appear on any kind of technology, as shown in Exhibition. Though he's on the same side as the Alternates, it's been stated both in Intruder Alert and by [[https://twitter.com/alexkisterr/status/1421609776002347013 Word of God]] that the Intruder isn't an Alternate himself.
760----
761* AllThereInTheManual: His real name, 6, is never mentioned in-universe and has instead been decided through Discord and announced in a Twitter post.
762* AmbiguousSituation: As implied by Volume 333, he may have been the one to hijack or even create the ''The Might of the Subconscious'' TV program, causing children's imaginary friends to manifest in the real world as Tulpas. These implications are seemingly confirmed in Volume 4.
763** ''What'' is he? He's not an Alternate. He had to mold himself after Mark's drawing, which implies he isn't human. That leaves very little room as to what he could be.
764* ArcWords: The phrase "Intruder Alert" seems to represent him.
765* BadassBoast: Has one in Volume 2, where he warns Adam that he shouldn't let him "wake the others", hinting that he can call upon ''more'' alternates to torment him and Jonah.
766* BigBad: In the latter half of Act 1, he seems to be the main antagonist of the Modern Times setting. He's seen playing a major role in the Alternate Invasion by being the responsible (or at least partially responsible) for the kidnapping of the children throughout 4 different counties, the creation of the Tulpa Alternates, as well as directly antagonizing two of the main protagonists of the first two volumes: Mark Heathcliff and Adam Murray.
767* BrokenRecord: When he's taunting Jonah near the end of Volume 2:
768-->''"Open your eyes. Open your eyes. Open your eyes."''
769* CardCarryingVillain: [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Comes with being affiliated with the Alternates]]. He potentially reveals Mark's death to the entirety of the United States, possibly kickstarting an investigation on him, seemingly on purpose. And in Volume 2, he briefly shows off his two past victims' portraits to Adam.
770* ChekhovsGunman: Makes his first appearance at the end of Volume 1, but doesn't have a significant role until Intruder Alert onwards.
771* DepravedKidsShowHost: He's this as Stanley. ''The Might of the Subconscious'' pretty much stretches the definition of a "Kids' Show" given its content, but he fits the bill nonetheless as he is an affiliate of the Alternates who aids them by teaching kids how to make their very own [[{{Tulpa}} "imaginary friends"]].
772* DespairGambit: Uses this quite often, mainly when he kidnaps children, often leading to their parents suffering from M.A.D. at the distraught of their missing children.
773* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: [[JustifiedTrope Justified.]] In his first appearance, he tries to match Mark's drawing of him, to horrible results. Later on, he looks like a regular human, although he retains his hooded design he used to haunt Mark.
774* ElectromagneticGhosts: He's not technically a ghost, but he can appear on practically any piece of technology. He also can, at some limited extent, come out of the surface he's inside of, often in the form of a [[IconicOutfit hooded man]] sporting his face.
775* EnemySummoner: Backs up his threat in BadassBoast by calling in The Preacher. {{Downplayed}}, as it still had to walk into the house.
776* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Due to his name never being mentioned in-universe, he's commonly referred to as "The Intruder" or slight variations like "Home Intruder." Even in out-universe instances, "6" is never listed as his name, as seen in the ''Volume 4'' credits where he's credited as "Stanley."
777* ExpyCoexistence: The 333 extension reveals that Limbo and Jim Henson do exist in the Mandela Catalogue universe, who Stanley was inspired by.
778* TheHeavy: Satan may be the one responsible for the Alternates as a whole, but the series focuses more on some of the Intruder's victims, making it rather clear that the Intruder is the most dangerous antagonist besides Satan himself.
779* IconicOutfit: His [[InTheHood hooded outfit]] he sported during Volume 1 and briefly during Volume 2.
780* InvasionOfTheBabySnatchers: The most notorious, and by far the worst deed of his is the kidnapping of over 3,000 children across four different counties in 1992. To pour salt on the wound, he even stayed for a while to see their parents' reaction and drive them to suicide, and in ''Volume 333', the possibility of him manipulating their children into creating Tulpa Alternates inside their houses before kidnapping them is given.
781* InterimVillain: InUniverse example[[labelnote:Note]]While it is true that Satan is the GreaterScopeVillain of the series, the series mostly focuses on 6, who is a more prominent threat and has way more appearances and main roles, whereas Satan mostly appears in cameos or small segments.[[/labelnote]]. In the modern times setting, Satan is almost nowhere to be seen save from a few cameos, leaving him as the biggest threat humanity has to face until [[SecondComing Gabriel's return]].
782* InvisibleMonster: He's invisible to the naked eye when he's desecrating the dead mother's body at the end of Intruder Alert.
783* LastDisrespects: Not long after his favorite victim he stalked since childhood, Mark Heathcliff, kills himself he decides to announce his demise on public television by messing with announcements that’d be put out by the Department of Temporal Phenomena, along with a petty taunt to anyone else who may be watching.
784-->'''THE DEATH OF MARK HEATHCLIFF''' - ''If you or a loved one has recently been effected by the result of exposure to analog television and mirrors, contact your local authority immediately. (…) [[BaitAndSwitch Financial compensation will not be available.]]"
785** Even though he made the mother's child vanish and drove her to suicide, he still sticks around to mess with investigators by sneering into the camera from the shadows and tamper with the corpse, lifting and waltzing her remains around as a taunt of some sort. By the time the Department gets their hands on the body, it has been completely left unidentifiable.
786* {{Leitmotif}}: Every appearance of his in the first half of Act 1 from Volume 1 onwards was accompaniated with Alessandro Moreschi's Ave Maria. This stopped being the case in the latter half onwards, however.
787* MeaningfulName: As a biblical number, '''6''' is related to "human weakness, the evils of the devil and the manifestation of sin", fitting for the villainous Intruder who enjoys taking advantage of his victims' weakness. And of course it's a number [[NumberOfTheBeast associated with Satan himself]], the guy that the Intruder works for.
788* MookPromotion: Went from appearing in two episodes to becoming the closest to a BigBad the series has.
789* NothingIsScarier: With the Alternates, we at least have some idea of how they work, but the intruder is officially (InUniverse and [[invoked]][[WordOfGod out]]) identified to '''not''' be an Alternate... which just makes him scarier since we have no clue what he is or what he's truly capable of.
790* OminousLatinChanting: His appearance in the TV is accompanied by the Castrati [[https://youtu.be/KLjvfqnD0ws Alessandro Moreschi singing Ave Maria]].
791* OminousMusicBoxTune: A creepy music box tune version of [[Film/TheWizardOfOz "Over the Rainbow"]] is heard during his appearance in Mandela Catalogue Vol. 2. Which is abruptly interrupted when another Alternate's head peeps in the TV.
792* PerpetualFrowner: Not the Intruder himself, but his puppet Stanley practically NEVER smiles.
793* RememberTheNewGuy: In Volume 333, he's heavily implied to have tormented Mark during the events of Volume 1 through his TV. In the Volume 1 video, there is nothing that alludes to this.
794** He's also implied to have been the one who tampered with the Department's PSA's all along, spreading misinformation to the viewers and making them more likely to die in case of an Alternate attack.
795* {{Sadist}}: All the Alternates are demons and enjoy their work, but 6 in particular seems to really enjoy emotionally fucking with people. He's seen smiling at the woman in ''Intruder Alert'' immediately after abducting and likely murdering her child with the knowledge that he's about to drive a woman to suicide, remorselessly emotionally tortured Mark for years since childhood, and repeatedly taunts Jonah for abandoning his friend.
796* SeriesMascot: The Intruder is by far the most recognizable character in the entire series, the most talked about, as well as the very first one to get an official merchandise plushie.
797* ShoutOut: His appearance as Stanley is a reference to ''Limbo: The Organized Mind'' by Jim Henson. The edutainment nature of Stanley's show might also bring to mind ''Series/SesameStreet''[='=]s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVktxm3p7gI "Count to Ten with Nobody"]], which also features a face made of puppeted rubber bands.
798* SlasherSmile: Even more than the Alternates, 6 takes a ''little'' too much glee in causing humans pain and suffering, and he isn't afraid to show that with a horrible plastered-on grin.
799* SoftSpokenSadist: Courtesy of Leon Rodriguez's voice acting, the Intruder now speaks with a soft, almost soothing voice from Volume 333 onwards. All while he either teaches kids how to create their own monster or torments Adam about his connection with him.
800* SpeakIllOfTheDead: He's implied to change the Department of Temporal Phenomena's logo to "The Death of Mark Heathcliff" in Exhibition.
801* SupernaturalFearInducer: His mere presence on a property apparently instills irrational dread and paranoia even if the victim has no idea he’s nearby, and save for Adam and one brave investigator, it's been enough to completely deter people from entering the home he's occupying.
802* SuppressedRage: When he gets interrupted by Sarah's voicemail in Volume 4, all he does is staying silent. He eventually fades into the darkness, clearly very upset about it.
803* SyntheticVoiceActor: He speaks with the [[AmbiguouslyRelated same whispering text-to-speech]] Gabriel speaks in Intruder Alert. As of Volume 2, his main voice is altered to sound different from Gabriel's, but you can still hear it when he's tormenting Jonah. Finally, in Volume 333 he's given a proper voice actor.
804* TwoAliasesOneCharacter: Volume 4 heavily implies that he disguised himself as "Stanley".
805* VillainEpisode: The appropiately named "Intruder Alert" episode is this for him, showing his modus operandi and abilities.
806* VillainHasAPoint: If he's the alternate following Jonah after he leaves Adam, then he's right in saying that leaving Adam is a dick move.
807-->''"what will he do without you"''
808* WouldHurtAChild: At least implied, being responsible for the disappearances of thousand of children across 4 separate counties.
809* YouAreNumber6: Fitting given that his name is literally "6".
810----
811[[/folder]]
812
813[[folder:GENESIS APOCRYPHON]]
814!!"GENESIS APOCRYPHON"/"allocate undamage"
815->''"Thanks for Review. More coming soon"''
816The owner of a rather suspicious channel that uploads The Beginner's Bible clips.
817----
818* AmbiguousSituation: The term "allocate undamage" sounds like another way to say "reverse the delusion", this and the fact that the link of one of their videos was in a TV corruption, and that they're running a channel dedicated to uploading corrupted Beginner's Bible videos may indicate that they're "Gabriel", or at least someone who's aware of his goals.
819* AlternateRealityGame: Not really an ARG per se, but you have to look up the gibberish that pops up on the tv in ''mandela catalyst'' to find their channel.
820* MeaningfulName:
821** Apocryphon is a term for early Christian writings that were meant to be "secret teachings". Genesis Apocryphon literally means something like "Secret Teachings of Genesis". Given that most of humanity believes that the events of the Book of Genesis happened as they were told in the Bible, not as they happened in Volume 4, this makes the Volume 4 version of Genesis implicitly being called a secret teaching. This also extends to the other key events that the clips found in the channel cover, such as Easter.
822** Allocate Undamage, as was previously pointed out, sounds eerily similar to "reverse the delusion", a phrase that Gabriel said in his very first appearance in ''Overthrone''. To allocate something means to distribute, the person who runs the channel believes that, by distributing the videos, they are by extension distributing "undamage", a way to reverse the "delusion".
823* SignificantAnagram: Allocateundamage is an anagram of mandelacatalogue.
824* YouNoTakeCandle: The channel owner seems to struggle to talk basic English, often times capitalizing random words, forgetting to use determiners such as "the," and excessively spacing words.
825-->''"Happy ... easter"''
826[[/folder]]
827
828!Others
829[[folder:United States Department of Temporal Phenomena]]
830!!United States Department of Temporal Phenomena
831[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/temporal_phenomena_department_tmc.png]]
832[[caption-width-right:350:Tempus Fugit]]
833[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see their revised logo.]]\
834 https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/usdtp_revised.png[[/labelnote]]]]
835The US Department charged with the heavy responsibility of combatting the Alternates, whose [=PSAs=] are the ones we are watching.
836----
837* AmbiguousSituation: Just how much of the [=PSAs=] were manipulated by the Intruder and how much as just plain wrong to begin with is unknown.
838** In fact, the general dissonance between the information they present and the public’s knowledge of Alternates leaves in question whether the entire department is a fabrication.
839* BlatantLies: An unforeseen threat has been eliminated.
840* TheCameo: Their logo is briefly shown alongside other images on the Intruder's TV in Volume 2.
841* FunWithAcronyms: Throughout the series, they named the measures one must follow to avoid being a victim of the Alternates the ''THINK'' Principle, and named a mental disorder caused by exposure to the Alternates as "M.A.D".
842* GodzillaThreshold: They outlawed most kinds of technology after the Intruder proved to be a menace, and anyone who has contraband technologies are regarded as criminals.
843* GovernmentAgencyOfFiction: The US Agency charged with combatting M.A.D and the Alternates.
844* UnreliableNarrator: {{Justified|Trope}}. Most of the information they provide has been altered in one way or another by the Intruder.
845----
846[[/folder]]
847
848[[folder:Mandela County Child Endangerment Awareness Association]]
849!!Mandela County Child Endangerment Awareness Association
850As their name implies, they're encharged with the prevention and awareness spread of child endangerment in Mandela County.
851----
852* OneOffCharacter: We never hear from them after Intruder Alert.
853* SpottingTheThread: After the Intruder starts tampering with their PSA, the once gentle and calm TTS voice is sped up, giving it a hurried and more androgynous voice.
854----
855[[/folder]]
856
857[[folder:The Archangel Gabriel]]
858!!Gabriel
859[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/get_real.png]]
860[[caption-width-right:350:''"[[CharacterCatchphrase Don't be]] [[ArcWords afraid!]] I bring good news of great joy!"'']]
861->''"Tonight your savior was born in David's town. He is Christ, the LORD. You will find him wrapped in soft cloth and lying in a manger."''
862The ArchangelGabriel, [[FrightBesideThem for real this time]]. He only appears in the intro sequence of Overthrone, doing the annunciation to the shepherds in the place of the group of angels. His appearance is cut short due to Satan replacing him.
863----
864* DeathByAdaptation: Heavily implied to have been killed by Satan, or at least was given a FateWorseThanDeath by him.
865* ImpersonationExclusiveCharacter: Appears to be this so far, with his sole role being replaced by Satan early on in the story.
866* KillAndReplace: It's implied Satan killed him before taking his identity.
867* LightIsGood: He wears a white robe and is God's angelic messenger.
868* SmallRoleBigImpact: Other than Satan using his likeness to torment God's followers, he doesn't play an important role in the story so far.
869* UncertainDoom: His ultimate fate is not known, although it's heavily implied that he's either [[DeathByAdaptation dead]] or [[AndIMustScream worse.]]
870* WeHardlyKnewYe: Only appears in the intro to ''Overthrone'', and is implied to have been killed and replaced by Satan soon after.
871----
872[[/folder]]
873
874[[folder:The Speaker]]
875!!The Speaker
876->''"if there is a god... please help me."''
877An unknown individual (often speculated to be UsefulNotes/JesusChrist, the real ArchangelGabriel or the Virgin Mary), at the end of Overthrone, mourning being fooled by the Alternates and monologuing through text.
878----
879* AllLowercaseLetters: They use all lowercase letters to communicate.
880* AndIMustScream: Regardless of whether they are human or not, they are trapped in what they describe as a tomb of infinite sand.
881* AmbiguouslyHuman: Their section seems to abruptly interrupt Gabriel's, meaning they could be powerful enough to beat his influence for at least a while.
882* ColorCodedSpeech: While Gabriel's text is red in all caps, theirs is [[LightIsGood white in all lowercase]].
883* HijackedByJesus: Inverted. If they truly are Christ or at least Gabriel or Mary, then ''they'' were the ones who got hijacked by the Alternates.
884----
885[[/folder]]
886
887[[folder:"The Shepherd"]]
888!!"The Shepherd"
889->''"[[ArcWords You followed the shepherd.]]"''
890After Satan or his creations fail to make a human do their bidding or follow their orders, they mention that they have "[[MadnessMantra followed the Shepherd.]]" Though the true identity of this "Shepherd" is unknown, it's heavily implied that they're none other than Jesus Christ, The GoodShepherd [[Literature/BookOfPsalms Himself]].
891----
892* AmbiguouslyHuman: They're heavily implied to be Jesus Christ Himself. The fact that "Gabriel" didn't mention them after failing to deceive Noah, an event that took place before Jesus's birth, may reinforce this line of thinking.
893* AmbiguouslyRelated: The Speaker, The Shepherd, and Jesus being one and the same is currently ambiguous.
894* TheDreaded: Ironically enough, for a cabal of demons that are strengthened by fear. Gabriel/Satan speaks of The Shepherd in quiet, [[TranquilFury Tranquil Furious]] tones, and it is heavily implied that The Shepherd and their presence in the world, and their influence on it's people, is the ''sole'' reason why, in spite of appearing to have [[VillainWorld already won]], the Alternates have insisted on staying subtle and haven't just taken the world by storm already.
895* TheGhost: They're not shown at any point in the series, nor are they directly referred to by name.
896* GoodShepherd: If their alias and how the Alternates talk to them is any indication, they are this.
897* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Only referred to as "The Shepherd" and nothing else.
898[[/folder]]
899
900!Non-Canonical
901
902[[folder:Alex Kister]]
903!!Alex Kister
904[[AuthorAvatar The very first protagonist of the series and a central posthumous character, a 17 year old Christian man living in]]- Wait, that's not right... Ah, here it is: Alex Kister, an 18 year old man who had been posting various images implying that he was under the attack of an Alternate, [[NothingIsScarier or worse]]. His account was under investigation due to the publishing of classified information. Out of universe, this was a theatrical way to announce a hiatus to work on Volume 333.
905----
906* AlternateSelf: No pun intended, but he's implied to be one of the ''actual'' Alex Kister.
907* AuthorGuestSpot: It's fairly easy to guess that this is an AlternateSelf to the real Alex Kister.
908* CharacterBlog: It's revealed that the weird posts and names in Alex's Instagram and Twitter account were caused because we were seeing ''this'' Alex's accounts.
909* DecompositeCharacter: {{Implied|Trope}}, given that Mark and Dave already look like Alex in real life.
910* DieLaughing: His last Twitter post before his disappearance was him describing his terrifying encounter with an Alternate. [[DarkComedy With several laughing and skull emojis]].
911-->''"πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚i saw it when it woke me up in the middle of the night i hid under the covers with the hope that it would disappear but i looked again and it was still there mouth agape πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚ LMAO THEY GOT ME FOR GOOD THIS TIME πŸ’€"''
912* TemporaryOnlineContent: His CharacterBlog was only available for a temporary amount of time back in early 2022, leaving any trace of it erased save for screenshots and wiki pages.
913----
914[[/folder]]
915
916[[folder:Intruder / "Phone a Friend" Plush Promo crew]]
917!!In General
918----
919* AlternateTimeline: The "Phone a Friend" advertisement classifies this timeline as "alternate timeline #02894089898024".
920* JokeCharacter: The short has a clear comedic tone to it that differentiates it from the tone the series had been going for until now.
921* OneOffCharacter: Due to the promo now being canonical to the series, they're this.
922----
923!!Dave Lee (Non-Canon)
924[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mysterious_stranger.png]]
925[[caption-width-right:200:'''LIVE DAVE REACTION''']]
926-->'''Portrayed by: Alex Kister'''
927->''"Hey! How's it going, tech geeks?"''
928The supposed manager of [=MandelaTECH=], who has been making exactly [[ArcNumber 332]] videos on how to fix certain technological defects.
929----
930* AuthorAvatar: Another character played by Alex Kister.
931* ContinuityNod: [=MandelaTECH=] was first mentioned in the in-universe description for ''Soccer Game 2009'', making this their first on-screen appearance.
932* DissonantSerenity: For a guy running a tech store in Mandela County of all places, he doesn't have much of a reaction when he sees the [[TooDumbToLive Intruder of all things]] haunting his technology.
933* HaveYouTriedRebooting: His suggestion of what to do upon an encounter with the Intruder.
934* NoSell: He says the Alternate Cesar plush is brought to you by "The mysterious voices that tell me funny things at night!" heavily implying he's immune to MAD
935* TooDumbToLive: Assuming that he's seen the various government announcements, he suggests that an appearance by the Intruder can be remedied by ''unplugging the TV'' he appears in. This gets him killed by a [[CreepyDoll plushie version]] of the Intruder.
936----
937
938!!Intruder Plush
939[[quoteright:260:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/is_he_ugly_on_purpose.png]]
940[[caption-width-right:260:I AM [[SubvertedCatchPhrase ONLY AVAILABLE UNTIL MAY 26!!!]]]]
941It's the Intruder. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin But they turned him into a marketable plushie]]. Let him in your home just for $27.99!!
942----
943* BaitAndSwitch: He will enter your home! (only if you pay him the small price of [=$27=]AndNinetyNineCents)
944* CreepyDoll: The doll jumps on its own at one point in the video. The quality of the video doesn't help at all.
945* MadnessMantra: THIS IS WORTH THE RISK. THIS IS WORTH THE RISK. THIS IS WORTH THE RISK.
946* RefugeInAudacity: Both the video promo and its ''Makeship'' description make it clear that buying this plushie is a really ''really'' bad idea, unless you're comfortable with having a CreepyDoll that stalks you at night inside your home.
947* SubvertedCatchphrase: This is... [[MadnessMantra WORTH THE RISK]]!
948----
949[[/folder]]
950
951[[folder:Alternate Type 5: Mimics]]
952!!Type 5: Mimics
953->"audible breathing."
954A fifth type of Alternate that unlike the Doppelgangers or Flawed Impersonators, transform into inanimate objects rather than human beings. They were introduced and mentioned only in a single community post, and aside from an Alternate turning into a car in ''The Scrimblo Catalogue'', have gone completely unused in the series. They were later completely stricken from canon.
955----
956* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the [[SelfParody Self-Parody]], ''[[JustForFun/TheScrimbloCatalogue The Scrimblo Catalogue]]'', an Alternate shapeshifts into a car. Similarly to what the Mimics do.
957* HellIsThatNoise: In the little that is known from them, it's assumed that they produce a noticeable breathing sound.
958* {{Objectshifting}}: They can transform into objects rather than people.
959----
960[[/folder]]
961[[folder:Mervin Marshall (Meme)]]
962!!Mervin Marshall
963[[quoteright:238:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/blackmesmervinleak.png]]
964[[caption-width-right:238:''"[[TheDogWasTheMastermind That's why I founded the Bythorne Paranormal Society!]]"'']]
965-->'''Portrayed by: Creator/BobOdenkirk (not really)'''
966->''"I'm actually cataloguing these things in Mandela County myself, sort of a [[TitleDrop Mandela Catalogue]], if you will."''
967One of Wisconsin's most cunning lawyers and Jonah Marshall's father. Set in a war path against the Alternates after seeing his son almost be kidnapped by the Intruder, Mervin would be relocated to Bythorne County, where he would found the Bythorne Paranormal Society. Grief-stricken after his son's death, Mervin would confess to his sins to the MCPD after representing Victim 5 in court in a mindblowing live-action segment.[[note]]None of the information here is canonical to the series in any shape or form. Mervin Marshall and his story weren't written by Alex Kister, however this iteration of him has gained his approval and is still on the fandom wiki.[[/note]]
968----
969* AscendedMeme: Not only did he become an actual canonical character, but as of Volume 4 live-action segments started to be used in the series. Also Jonah's dead.
970* AwesomeByAnalysis: Realized that his relocation to Bythorne wasn't for compensation, but to keep his mouth shut after the MCPD tried to keep details of the Intruder outside of the range from the public.
971* BadassBystander: Days after the Intruder attempted to kidnap Jonah, Mervin goes on a rampage against the Alternates, even succesfully managing to kill one.
972* ConnectedAllAlong: His wife, Patricia Marshall, is heavily implied to be the Distraught Mother.
973* TheDogWasTheMastermind: He's later revealed to be the founder and leader of the Bythorne Paranormal Society.
974* {{Expy}}: Of [[Characters/BreakingBadSaulGoodman Saul Goodman]] with tints of [[Film/{{Nobody}} Hutch Mansell]].
975* TheLostLenore: Patricia Marshall, his wife, was among the many others who killed themselves during the Intruder's InvasionOfTheBabySnatchers.
976* OutdatedByCanon: Mervin Marshall was a JokeCharacter made before Volume 333 even premiered, sadly he was bound to be a victim of this. The Distraught Mother and the Father were revealed to be Adam's parents, the BPS founders were Adam and Sarah, etc.
977[[/folder]]

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